West African studies

by Mary Henrietta Kingsley

FOOTNOTES:

[94] For the reasons for the unhealthiness of this island see Travels in West Africa (Macmillan), p. 46.

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INDEX

• A
• Abiabok, [163], [180-184]
• Abiadiong, [180]
• Abiadiong, [180]
• Abonema (see New Calabar)
• Abrah, oracle at, [172]
• Administration (see Crown Colony)
• Adultery laws, [434], [454], [536]
• African—
• acclimatisation of, West Indians, [53]-[54]
• agriculture, [341]
• nature of, [63], [124], [168], [177]-[178], [373]
• Alemba rapid fetish, [177]
• Alumah, King, [458]
• Amachree, King, [500], [503], [505]
• Amomum, [56]
• Anamaquoa, [82]
• Ancestor Worship, [131]-[135]
• Andoni, [538]-[540], [553]
• Angola, [196], [283]
• Animal deities, [513], [515] (see Snake and Shark)
• Ants—
• Driver, [25]-[33]
• Myriaica molesta, [33], [34]
• Apothecary, [180]-[184]
• Ashantee, [115], [144], [368]
• Assini, [73], [83]
• Atlantis, [227]
• Ayzingo, [108]
• Azambuja, [258]
• B
• Bafangh, [152]
• Bakele, [186]
• Bantu, [231] (see Negro)
• Bar, custom, [523]
• Barbot, [46], [69], and [Appendix III.]
• Basel mission, [110]
• Bastian, [137], [154]
• Baths, medical, [182], [183]
• Bence Island, [36]
• Benga, [90], [153]
• Benguella, [210], [286]-[287]
• Benin, Bight of, [4]
• fetish of, [141]-[144] (see [Appendix I])
• natives of kingdom, [448]-[468]
• Binger, [83]
• Bob Manuel, King, [507], [509]
• Bonny, [142], [495]-[509], [510], “free,” [516], [540]
• Brahmanism, [119]
• Brass River, [140], [468]-[491]
• Bristol, [83]
• Brohemie, [458]
• Brüe Sieur, [271]-[273]
• Burial Customs, [144]-[150], [452]-[455]
• Bush fighting, [319]
• soul, [208], [209]
• C
• Cabinda, [11], [186]
• Calabar, [54], [140]-[142]
• fetish, [144]
• history, [552]-[561]
• New, [491]
• Cameroons, [81], [231], [236], [238]
• Canoes, [99]-[101]
• Catfish, [96], [97]
• Centipedes, [81]
• Chamberlain, Rt. Honble. J., [307]
• Chambers of Commerce, [323]
• Charms, [163]-[169]
• Chiloango, [108]-[112]
• Clerks, [329], [357]
• Coinage, native, [82]
• Colonial Office, [305], [324]-[330]
• Comey, [444], [447], [523]
• Competition, [417]
• Comte, [115]
• Congo—
• Belge, [54]
• River, [102], [238]
• Cookey Gam, King, [497]
• Corisco, [89]-[90]
• Crabs, [105]
• Crocodiles, [2]
• worship of, [140]
• Crown Colony, [317], [319], [326], [361], [366], [390], [417]-[418]
• statistics, [348], [357]
• Crowther—
• Bishop, [481]
• Archdeacon, [487], [509]
• “Customs,” native, [451] (see Fetish)
• fiscal, [408], [410], [413], [444], [447]
• D
• Dahomey—
• fetish, [144]
• fiscal, [347]-[348]
• Danfodio, [278]
• Dash, [446]
• De Brosses, [114]
• Debtors, [431], [433]
• Dennett, R. E., [154], [183], [186], [192]
• De Zurara, [252], [253]
• Dieppe, [256], [261]-[263]
• Diplomacy, [280]
• Direct taxation, [331]
• Disease (see Doctor)
• ague, [184]
• boisi, [184]
• fvuma, [184]
• hysteria, [188]
• leprosy, [184]
• malignant melancholy, [188]
• pneumonia, [188]
• small-pox, [184]-[188]
• soul, diseases of, [199], [209], [213]
• worms, [184]
• yaws, [187]
• Doctor (see Apothecary)
• clinical, [199]-[219]
• witch, [163], [169], [180], [182], [213]
• Dream-soul, [205], [207]
• Drum fish, [108]
• Duppy, [68]
• Dutch, [262], [268]
• Dye wood, [78]
• E
• Eboes, [138] (see Ibo)
• Ebony, [78]
• Ebumtup, [214]
• Edinburgh Review, [157]
• Egbo (see Law God)
• Electrical fish, [107]
• Ellis, Sir A. B., [115]-[116], [132], [134]-[139]
• Elmina, [257]
• Emanequetta, [57]
• Expenditure (see Crown Colony)
• Exports, [334]
• F
• Face, throwing the, [165]-[167]
• Familiar spirits, [161]
• Fangaree charms, [164]
• Father, making, [146]-[148], [451]
• Fetish, [112]-[179]
• “customs,” [173], [176], 450
• days, [171], [174]
• definitions of, [113], [116], [119], [171]
• derivation of the word, [114]
• gods and goddesses—
• Abassi-boom, [155]
• Mbuiri, [118]
• Nkala, [118]
• Nyankupong, [155]
• Nzambi [118], [137], [154]
• Nzambi Mpungu, [155]
• Sasabonsum, [117]
• Srahmantin, [137]
• House, description of, [170], [514]
• Man, [168], [171]
• Schools of, [137]
• Calabar, [144], [151], [160]
• Mpongwe, [151], [154], [160]
• Nkissism, [154]-[163]
• Tshi and Ewe and Yoruba, [139]
• Fiscal arrangements, [290] (see Crown Colony)
• Fish, quality of, [95], [106]-[109]
• Fishing, appliances, [101]-[106]
• canoes, [99]
• Native methods of, [99]-[109], [488]
• Floating Islands, [103]
• French, early exploration by the, [250], [264]
• Statistics, Colonial, [347]
• Frogs, [66]
• Funerals, [145], [452]-[484]
• G
• Ga, [138]
• Gesture, [237]
• Ghagas, [424]
• Glamour, [219]
• Gods (see Fetish), [141]
• Goethe, [121]-[123]
• Gorillae, [235], [236]
• Governor, [305], [328], [365]
• native, [450]
• Grain Coast, [56]-[61]
• of Paradise, [56]-[61]
• Guineamen, [83]
• Günther, Dr., [108]
• H
• Hanno, [231]-[240]
• Head cutting, [525]
• Hero worship, [131]-[134]
• Hoheit, Landes and Ober, [400]-[405], [410]
• House system, [427], [475]-[478]
• Human sacrifices, [142]-[148]
• I
• Ibbibios, [138]
• Igalwa, [153]
• Ijos, [448], [460]
• Immortal soul, [200], [207]
• Imports, [334]
• Inheritance, [453]-[475]
• Insects, [10]-[11]
• Islam and Fetish, [127]
• Ivory Coast, [68]-[73]
• trade of, [81]-[83], [347]
• J
• Ja Ja, King, [497], [522], [527], [540]-[552]
• Jakris, [448]-[457], [459]-[460]
• Jam, [503]
• Jannequin, [248]
• Jews, [630]
• Jobson, [246]-[247]
• Ju Ju, [114] (see Fetish)
• Long, [439], [444], [461], [480], [498]
• trade, [503]
• K
• Kitty-Katty, [64]
• Kla, [200]
• Koromantin slaves, [140]
• Krumen, [52], [54], [56], [412], [429]
• Kufong, [163], [165]
• Kwo Ibo, [549], [552], and Appendix II
• L
• Labat, [131]
• Lagos, colony, [353]
• Land, [438]
• Landana, [194]
• Law, John, [271]
• Law, native—
• adultery, [434], [536]
• god society, [160]
• property, [371], [427], [439], [475]-[478].
• Leo Africanus, [231]
• Leopard worship, [140], [165]
• Liberia, [46], [52]-[54] (see Grain Coast)
• Loanda, [108], [284]
• Loango, [212]
• Lucan, Dr., [194]
• Lyall, Sir Alfred, on witchcraft, [156], [158]
• M
• Machinery, [288]
• Maine, Sir Henry, [153]
• Malagens, [69]
• Malignant melancholy, [188]-[189]
• Manchester, [288], [351]
• Manilla, [82]
• Manioc, [190]
• Markets, [310]
• Maxwell, Sir Wm., [329]
• Meleguetta Coast, [51]-[61]
• Melli, [244]-[245], [426]
• Mendi, [164]
• Merolla, [197], [321]
• Minstrels, [149]
• Missionary, [320], [478], [509], [512], [556]
• Mohammedanism and Fetish, [126]-[127], [141]
• Monrovia, [46]
• Monteiro, [196]
• Mpongwe, [151]
• Mungo Mah Lobeh, [236]
• Murder, [454]
• Music, [64]-[66]
• Mutterrecht, [437]
• N
• Nassau, Dr., [89], [130], [152]-[153], [159]
• Nana, [451], [458]
• Negro, [420]-[423]
• Nganga bilongo (see Apothecary)
• Niger Company, [279], [306], [360], [394]
• Nkala, [118]
• Nkissism, [154]-[155], [163]
• Nyankupong, [155]
• Nzambi, [118], [137], [154]-[155], [159]
• Nzambi Mpungu, [118], [155]
• O
• Obeah, [139], [140], [219]
• Ogi, [138]
• Ogowé, [45], [79], [102]
• Oko Jumbo, King, [522], [529]-[532]
• Ombuiri, [116]
• Opobo, [142], [532], [540]-[549]
• Ordeal, [160], [161], [490]
• Oru, [160]
• Oulof, [273]
• Ouwere, [143], [630]
• P
• Palm oil, [15] (see Appendix I)
• Panavia, [152]
• Paradise grains, [56]-[57]
• Parliamentary resolution (1865), [305], [307], [311]
• Pepple, King, [497], [510], [512], [517]-[521], [526]
• Pepper coast (see Grain)
• Phœnicians, [227] (see Hanno)
• Police, [333], [407]
• Poorah, [139]
• Portuguese, [114], [252]-[256], [281], [290]
• stone monuments, [259]
• Post-mortem, [211]
• Priests, [140]-[141], [160], [169]-[170], [499], [505] (see Fetish Man)
• Property—
• ancestral, [428]
• family, [428]
• private, [428]-[429]
• Stool, [428]
• R
• Railways, [287], [350]
• Religion, native (see Fetish)
• Revenue, [309], [413] (see Crown Colony)
• native, [444]-[447], [523]
• S
• Sails, [100]-[101]
• Sataspes, [228]
• San Andrew, Rio, [58], [70], [73]
• Sanguin, [274]
• Sasabonsum, [116]-[117]
• Scorpion, [80], [81], [185]
• Senegal, [273], [275]
• Shadow-soul, [200], [207]-[208]
• Shake hand, [446]
• Shark, [501]
• Sierra Leone, [36], [139], [149], [344]
• resources of, [339]
• Sisa, [202]-[205]
• Sleep disease, [189]-[193]
• stages of, [192]-[193]
• Small-pox, [186]-[188]
• Smaltz, [273]
• Snake worship, [140], [483]-[490], [456]
• Sobo, [457]
• Societies, Secret, [139], [170], [556]-[566]
• (see Law God)
• Song-net, [149]-[150]
• Soul, [199]-[200]
• Fetish view of the, [129]-[131]
• Division of the Human, [200]-[204]
• South Africa, [394]
• Spiders, [140]
• Spinoza [112]-[113], [120]
• Spirit and Matter, Native view of, [129]-[130]
• Spirits, Classes of, [130]
• Familiar, [161]
• Touch of, [133]
• Srahmandazi, [146], [151], [202]
• Srahmantin, [137]
• Statesmanship, [311]
• Statistics, [348]-[357]
• T
• Tchanga (Voudou), [139]
• “Them,” [132]
• Theopompus, [226]
• Timber, [73]-[80]
• Timbuctoo, [277]
• Tom-toms, [64]
• Topping, [525]
• Tornadoes, [18]-[19], [47]-[48]
• Trade (see Crown Colony)
• gold, [241]-[246], [257]
• palm oil, [354]-[359]
• rubber, [353]
• salt, [242]-[248], [339]
• timber, [78]
• tobacco, [248], [339]
• Tshi, [115], [137]
• Twins, treatment of, [148]
• Tylor, Professor, [115]
• U
• Ukukiwe, [160]
• Umaru l’Haji, [278]
• V
• Vegetation, [32]-[33]
• Virtue, Native idea of, [178]
• Volta, [96]
• Voudou, [139]-[140]
• W
• Wanga (Obeah), [139]-[140], [219]
• War, [371]
• Warri, [143], [459], [630]
• Wealth, [438]
• “Well-disposed ones,” [132]
• West Africa, Political aspect of, [310]
• West Indies, [302], [324]
• Will Braid, [493]-[497]
• Wills, [436]
• Winnebah, [175]
• Winnaboes, [471]-[474]
• Witchcraft, [157]-[168]
• law, [430] (see Fetish)
• X
• Xylophonic instruments, [65]
• Y
• Yam custom, [174]-[175], [450]
• Yaws, [187]
• Z
• Zaire, [102]

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