INDEX 



1013 



Mutei tribe, 853, 870, 882, 883i 



Mutesa, king, 219, 221, 222, 224, 270, 682. 685 



MwANGA, ex-king, 106, 224 et seq., 230 et seq., 



239, 243, 247, 682, 685 

 Mwengi, East Toro, 138, 594 

 Mweru, Lake, 133 

 MyrmecocicMa (a chat), 11 



Naivasha, Lake, 2, 5, 7, 9 et seq., 227, 300 



Nakedness, see Nudity 



Nakua River, 23 



Nakuro, Lake, 5, 11 



Name, naming (ceremonies or superstitions 

 connected with): Lendu, 553; Baganda, 

 691 : Ja-luo, 795; Masai, 826 



Nande, Ba-, 192, 193, 488 et seq., 510 et seq. 



Nandi : district, country, 1, 245, 304; plateau, 

 2, 28 et seq., 32, 214, 270, 29s, 300, 303, 

 319, 326 ; forest, 38 et seq. ; first mention 

 of, 225 ; war, 257 ; language, 762. 887, 902 



Nandi people, 54, 484, 488 et seq., 761, 798, 853; 

 tribal divisions, 853, 862 ; related to the 

 Nile Negroes, 861 ; ear ornaments, 866 ; 

 extract incisor teeth. 868 ; live in caves, 

 868 ; houses, 868, 869 ; domestic animals, 

 875 ; weapons, 876 ; industries. 876 ; musical 

 instruments, 877 ; marriage customs, 878 ; 

 training of children, 879; burial custom*, 

 879; inheritance, 880; medicines, 881; 

 justice, administration of. 882 ; omens. 883 : 

 religion, 883 ; peace-making, ss4 



Napoleon Gulf, Victoria Nyanza. 68, 69 



Natal, 411 



Navigable lakes, rivers, 266 



Ndaula of Unyoro, 594 et seq , 677 



Neanderthaloid man, 474, 477 



Negative particle in Masai and Nilotic tongues, 

 887 ; in Pantu, 897 



Negro, the, 40; and the banana, 98; ape-like 

 Negroes, 193, 477, 510 et seq.,; influence 

 on him of the ancient Egyptian and 

 Hamite, 210, 486 ; domestic animals 

 and cultivated plants, 210, 486 ; musical 

 instruments, 210, 486; miseries endured 

 at the hands of other Negroes and 

 of Arabs, 279, 280 ; labour to be used in 

 developing South Africa, 283. 284 ; origin 

 of Negro species, 471 ; simian character- 

 istics, 471, 472, 724; his head-hair. 472; 

 Negro of the Sudan, 473 ; Negro of West 

 Africa, 474; Bantu Negroes, 480 et seq.; 

 Nilotic Negro. 482 et seq. ; Hamitic influence 

 on various Negro races, 482 ; lines of migra- 



tion in tropical Africa, 515 ; Negro food 

 crops, 575 ; three main groups of the Negro 

 race, 756 ; varying blends with the Cau- 

 casian in East Central Africa, 841 



Nephila spiders, 410 



Nettopus (" pygmy " geese), 78, 397 



Neumann, Oscar, 421 



Neumptera, 468 



Nem Turk Herald, the, 222 



Ngishu Masai ) language, 902 ; see Gwas' Ngishu 



Niger, Nigeria, 278, 624, £94 



Nile Province, 143 et seq.. 302, 309 



Nile River. 64 ; its birth, 70. 71, UBet seq., 151 ; 

 White Nile, 214. 220, 236; sources of, 218, 

 219; early history of, 352; Victoria Nile, 

 568, 592 



Nilghai, the, 393 



Nilotic languages, 35, 225, 475. 765, s> 7 et seq. 



Nilotic Negroes, 144, 4*2. 796, 841; peculiar 

 standing attitude of, 145,761,787; villages of. 

 145 ; preference for nudity, 220, 765 et seq. ; 

 allies of Kabarega, 292: migrations of, 755. 

 762, 764 ; physical characteristics of, 756 

 et acq. ; tribal divisions of, 761 ; peculiar 

 style of thatching, 772; houses, 774; agri- 

 culture, 776; food, 776; warfare. 777; 

 musical instruments, 778 : condition of 

 women, 778; names to children, 779: 

 burial customs, 779; religion, 779 



Nine: a mystic number among the Hima 

 (Unyoro) tribes. 587, 589, 678 



Nose, shape of the: Pygmy, 529; Lendu, 550; 

 Hima, 616 



Nubia, Nubians, 36, 209, 21 1. 222. 2:17. 874 



Nudity of Negroes. 34, 47, 551, 58-1, 648; 728, 

 730, 765 et seq.. 781, 843, 862 



Nyakach people, 789, 793 



Nyala or Nyara, Ba-, 745, 902 



Nyam-Nyam (Makarka). 145, 212, 546 



Nyamukasa River, 193 



Nyamwezi, II- , Wa-, Ki-, U-. 215, 216, 755 (also- 

 Anthropometric Observation-, 1^7 ,i seq.'), 

 798, 818, 821 



Nyando River and Valley, 32, 41, 217. 304, 305, 

 746, 798 



Nyanzas, see Victoria, Albeit, etc. 



Nyarusi, see Enjamusi 



Nyasa. Lake, 2, 216 



Nyasaland, 138, 874 



Nyifwa, see Ja-luo 



Nyobo, Ba-, people, 5G6 <t seq.., 569, 581 i * seq. ; 

 birth customs, 587; totems, 588; worship 

 of ancestral spirit-. 589; immorality, 590;. 

 diseases, 593 ; legends. 594 et seq. ; fables,. 



