INDEX 



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Mutei tribe, ^58, K70, .'<S2, 8s3. 



MuTESA, king, 219. 221, 222, 224, 270, 6S2. 6K5 



MwAXGA. ex-king. 106, 224 et seii., 230 ef srq., 



239, 243, 247, 6H2, (;k5 

 Mwengi, East Toro, 138, 594 

 Mweru, Lake, 133 

 Myrmecociclda (a chat), 1 1 



Xaivasha, Lake, 2, 5, 7, 9 et scq., 227, 300 



Nakedness, see Nudity 



Xakna Eiver, 23 



Nakuro, Lake, 5, 11 



Name, naming (ceremonies or su|jerstitions 

 connected witii) : Lendu. 553 ; Baganda, 

 691 : Ja-luo, 795 ; Masai, 826 



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



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

 2, 28 ef seq., 32, 214, 270, 298, 3tX), 303, 

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

 of, 225 ; war, 257 ; language, 762, 8S7, 902 



Nandi people, 54, 484, 488 et sej., 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, 

 "^75 ; 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, 884 



Napoleon Gulf, Victoria Nyanza. 68, 69 



Natal. 411 



Navigable lakes, rivers, 266 



Ndaula of Unyoro, 594 ct seq , 677 



Neanderthaloid man, 474, 477 



Negative particle in Masai and Nilotic tongues. 

 887; in Bantu, S97 



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, 545 ; Negro food 

 crops, 575 ; three main groups of the Negro 

 race, 756 ; varying blends with the Cau- 

 casian in East Central Africa, ^41 



Nephlla spiders, 410 



Xettojms ('• pygmy "' geese), 78, 397 



Neumann, Oscar, 421 



Neuroptera, 468 



Xen' York Herald, the, 222 



Ngishu (Masai) language, 902 ; see Gwas' Ngishu 



Niger, Nigeria, 27S, 624. MJ4 



Nile Province, 143 if seq., 302, 309 



Nile River. 64 ; its birth. 70, 71, 143^ 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, 762, 887 ef seq. 



Nilotic Negroes, 144, 482, 796, s41 ; peculiar 

 standing attitude of, 145,761.787; villages of, 

 145 ; preference for nudity, 220. ~^^het seq.; 

 allies of Kabarega, 292 ; migrations of, 755, 

 762. 764 ; physical characteristics of, 756 

 et seq. ; tribal divisions of, 764 ; peculiar 

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

 culture, 776; food, 77() ; warfiirc. 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 ; I>en lu, 550 ; 

 Hinia, 616 



Nubia, Nubians, 36. 209. 214. 222, 237, 874 



Nudity of Negroes. 34, 47, 551, 581, 64s, 728, 

 730, 765 ct seq., 781, 813, 862 



Nyakach people, 789, 793 



Nyala or Nyara. Ba-. 745, 902 



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



Nyamukasa P.iver, 193 



Nyamwezi, M-, Wa-, Ki-, U-, 215, 216, 755 {ah» 

 Anthropometric Observations, 4^7 ef seq.), 

 79S, 818, 821 



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

 746, 798 



Nyanzas, see Victoria. Albert, etc. 



Nyarusi. see Enjamusi 



Nyasa. Lake, 2, 216 | 



Nyasaland, 138, 874 



Nyifwa, see Ja-luo 



NyorO . Ba-. people, 566 tt srq., 569, 581 tt seq. ; 

 birth customs, 587 ; totems, 588 ; worship 

 of ancestral spirits, 589 ; immorality, 590 ;. 

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



