Congo life and folklore

by John H. Weeks

• Interpreter to Trader, [235]

J

• Journey begins, my overland, [12]

K

• King of Congo murders his mother, [106]
• King of Congo, [131];
  • calls the embassy, [134];
  • his courtyard, [135];
  • his palace, [136];
  • is pleased with the presents, [137];
  • his name, [137];
  • size of, [138];
  • goes to dinner with the white man, [139];
  • eats a large dinner, [141];
  • sees magic lantern, [143];
  • his Majesty’s Court, [145];
  • told to go to St. Catherine, [167]
• Kroo boys, their work on steamer, [3];
  • their curious names, [4];
  • give white men names, [4], [7];
  • boy tries to steal me, [5];
  • carries me out of the store, [5]

L

• Law, making a new, [224];
  • peculiarity of native laws, [225];
  • fines imposed for breaking a law are shared, [226]
• Leopard, ceremony after killing a, [176]
• Life, petty and mean native, [58]

M

• Markets, [227];
  • risks of attending, [229]
• Marriage, Christian, [307];
  • releasing a niece from, [179];
  • sham struggle at, [189];
  • money, paying, [182], [187];
  • feast at, [189];
  • promises, [189]
• Martyrs for the cause, [305], [306]
• Mavakala, accused of witchcraft, [52];
  • denies his guilt, [52];
  • reason of the false charge, [53];
  • takes the ordeal, [55];
  • vomits it, [56];
  • other tests forced on him, [56];
  • is murdered, [57];
  • carcass left on hilltop, [57]
• “Medicine man,” makes fetish for white man, [13];
  • visited by Satu, [20];
  • makes a charm for Satu, [21];
  • fails to cure Satu’s brother, [22];
  • searches for the witch, [49];
  • mode of procedure, [51];
  • accuses Mavakala of witchcraft, [52];
  • makes a luck fetish, [69];
  • rubs out evil spirits, [158];
  • exposure of, [166];
  • makes a hunting charm, [197];
  • makes a war fetish and charms, [214];
  • performs peace rites, [221];
  • makes trading charm, [251];
  • asks Bakula for a bribe, [247];
  • is fooled by school-boys, [263];
  • models of diagnosing[diagnosing], [275];
  • various kinds of, [274], [277], [280], [281]
• Mikula finds the brass rod, [275];
  • takes services, [297];
  • conducts a funeral, [201];
  • his marriage, [307];
  • receives the gifts, [309];
  • talks to an inquirer, [320].
• Mission station, working of, [148];
  • buying food, [149];
  • best way of bartering for goods, [150];
  • school, [151];
  • repairing, [153];
  • boys’ work in the garden, [154];
  • rules on a, [155];
  • talk with the boys, [156];
  • Saturday’s work, [157];
  • Sunday’s work--Sunday school, [159];
  • service, [161];
  • visit to a town, [162];
  • talk with the King, [164];
  • employments, [257]
• Missionary meeting, native, [335]
• Missionary, their talk about, [17];
  • is coming, [60];
  • driven from the town, [66];
  • is defended by Tonzeka, [93]-97;
  • dresses the wounds, [100];
  • converses with Satu and his followers, [107]-110;
  • native name for, [90];
  • visits Bakula, [270]
• Mother of Bakula falls ill, [274]

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