industries; religion; classification. HOTTF.NTOTS His- 

 tory; distinctive features; customs; rites; folklore; 

 language. THE OVA-HEHEHO History; physical traits; 

 clothing; industries; superstitions. KAFFIUS History 

 and general description. HKCHTAVAS Boundaries, hi.s- 

 tory, ami various tribes, Zri.rs A powerful and war- 

 like race. MATABILI Location; description; their great 

 dance (Inj-iraln). MASHONAH Peaceful and industrious; 

 skilled smiths. PEOPLE OF LORENZO MARQUEZ Four 

 groups in Portuguese territories. ANOONI AND MAKOLOLO 

 Angoni are hybrid Zulus; their migration; a disturbing 

 (.lenient; lust for carnage; Makololo led and armed by 

 Livingstone. NATIVES OF XYASAI.AXD Made known by 

 Sir Harry Johnston; good agriculturists; fetishism and 

 witchcraft; unique burial custom 289-31 2 



CHAPTER XIV 



THK BANTU OF EASTERN AND WESTERN 

 AFRICA 



THE PEOPLE OF MOZAMBIQUE Wayao and Yao; char- 

 acteristics; Livingstone's servant. WAXKOXDE Origin 

 of their name; Lugard's description. \\A\VA\IWEZI 

 A group of highland tribes. WAZAUAMO Described by 

 Burton. WADOA Once powerful; tribal mark; former 

 brutality. WAKHUTU, WASAGARA, AND WAGOGO Pe- 

 culiar traits; " a curtain of pigtails "; Wagogo in- 

 congruities. SfAHii.i A hybrid race; Arab influence; 

 widespread language. WAGIHYAMA Agriculturists; 

 stockaded villages; extreme fetish-worship. WAPOKOMO 

 An isolated race; scanty dress; secret rites and charms; 

 " Old Man of the Woods " propitiated; women favoured. 

 WAKAMHA On the Uganda Railway; keen traders; 

 men's teeth "filed into pointed fangs"; family kraals; 

 common property; elders and chiefs; religion. PEOPLE 

 OF UGANDA AND ALLIES State and government; ob- 

 servations of Speke. Lugard, and Baker. WAGANDA 

 1'osition and population; King Mtesa; complete clothing; 

 Christian missions; former despotic barbarism. WASOGA 

 A superior type; decent dress; polygamy; agriculture. 

 WANYORO Feudalism; King Kabaregga; burial of a 

 king. MONBUTTU, OB MANGBATTU Peculiar physical 

 characters; monarchy; metal- and wood-working; pottery; 

 women agriculturists. BANTU OF WESTERN AFRICA 

 Three groups; foreign influence; the Bakongo give name 

 to Congo River; Johnston on Congo types; Stanley tells 

 of African shrewdness; Miss Kingsley's religious classifica- 

 tion; various tribes and nations 313336 



CHAPTER XV 



EQUATORIAL AND NILOTIC NEGROES 



THE ASHIRA, OKANDA, APINGI, APONO, ISHOGO, AND 

 ASHANGO Bantu of the French Congo; interesting facts 

 regarding appearance, dress, homes, manners and customs, 

 occupations, etc.; striking descriptions by Du Chaillu. 

 THE KIKUYU, AZANDEH or NIAM-NIAM, and FANS 

 Negroes of the Equatorial Belt; characteristics; manners; 

 marriage customs; religious beliefs, etc. THE DINKA, 

 DYUR, BONGO, LATUKA, MASAI, NJEMPSIANS, NEGROES 

 OF KAVIRONDO, LANGO NATION All classed as Nilotic 

 Negroes; studies of each, covering geography, ethnology, 

 appearance, dress, homes, manners and customs, social 

 systems, industries, etc 337-360 



CHAPTER XVI 



THE SOUDANESE AND GUINEA NEGROES, 



AND THE ABYSSINIAN AND ETHIOPIC 



GROUPS 



THE MANDINGO, TIMNI, AND KRU Commercial su- 

 premacy of the Mandingo; written alphabet; Mendi tribe; 

 secret societies; Liberians; the name Kru; usefulness of 

 the Kru. THE FANTI AND ASHANTI Described and com- 



pared: the Fanti a tribe of village communities; the 

 Ashanti state ruled by a king; fetishism; circumcision; 

 religious cannibalism; moon-worship; totemism; families 

 Darned after animals and plants. DAHO.MEYANS Chief 

 people of the Ewe group; King Gelele; Amazon corps; 

 human sacrifices; the Grand Custom. THE YORUBA 

 Tradition of their descent; culture. THE EGBA A 

 Negroid type; nose-ornament; tattooing; a large city; 

 mud houses; culture; religion; trade castes. GALLAS A 

 Caucasian race; beautiful women; varied industries; 

 Gallas mainly Pagans. DA.-.'AKIL A Hamitic people, 

 handsome, brave, and independent; revenue from salt 

 lakes. SOMALI Hamitic; defects and merits; weapons; 

 Somali mostly Mohammedans; two main divisions. 

 ABYSSINIANS Full description of this ancient, powerful, 

 and interesting people and their kingdom, and of their 

 peculiar form of Christianity. FALASHAS One of the 

 most remarkable races in Abyssinia; their claim of Jewish 

 descent; social system; religion a kind of debased 

 Judaism 361-384 



CHAPTER XVII 



THE HAMITIC AND SEMITIC RACES OF 

 NORTH AFRICA 



THE TIBBTJS, TUAREGS, FULAH, AND tLvussA Peoples 

 of the Sahara and Soudan; varied information regarding 

 their geographical, ethnological, physical, and mental 

 history, social systems, customs, beliefs, etc. PEOPLES 

 OF THE CENTRAL SOUDAN Four states Bornu, Baghirmi, 

 Wadai, and Darfur; characteristics of the various popu- 

 lations. THE COPTS, FELLAHIN, NUBIANS, BEJA,ABABDEH, 

 NUBA, AND DONGOLAWI Peoples of Egypt and Nubia; 

 graphic accounts of each race and tribe; the Coptic 

 Church. THE BERBERS, NORTH AFRICAN ARABS, AND 

 MOORS Moorish culture, costume, architecture, customs, 

 and religion 385-408 



CHAPTER XVIII 



EUROPE: RUSSIA, CAUCASIA, FINLAND, LAP- 

 LAND, NORWAY, SWEDEN, AND ICELAND 



RUSSIA Empire; peasants; vapour baths experience 

 of Sir I). Mackenzie Wallace; general character and cus- 

 toms of Russians; illustrative anecdotes; lu'story; serfdom; 

 costume; food; beer and rodka; a peasant meal; smoking 

 by men and women; influence of Tolstoi and other writers; 

 humanity and hospitality; the State Church. CAUCASIA 

 Various races; Svans; Lesghians; Georgians; Circassians; 

 Bryce on the " splendid " Georgians; Georgian beauties; 

 Circassian ladies; Circassian men, according to Barkley, 

 " magnificent"; mental incapacity of Circassians. FIN- 

 LAND Finns a non-Aryan group; Swedish blood; the 

 Kalevala, their national epic; people mainly Lutherans. 

 LAPLAND Mostly within the Arctic Circle; political rela- 

 tions; the name Lapland; population; shortest people in 

 Europe; description of them from recent study. NORWAY, 

 SWEDEN, AND ICELAND Homes of the larger part of the 

 Scandinavian or Norse branch of the Teutonic stock; 

 peoples described, showing their distinctive traits, racial 

 resemblances, and national variations 40&-432 



CHAPTER XIX 



GREECE AND ISLES, TURKEY, BULGARIA, 

 RUMANIA, SERVIA, MONTENEGRO, BOS- 

 NIA-HERZEGOVINA, AUSTRIA-HUNGARY, 

 THE GYPSIES 



GREECE AND ISLES Geography; modem Greeks; 

 traits; language; social life; symbolism; ceremony; 

 marriages; burials; Albanians. TURKEY European 

 Turks; race; physical type; mode of life; dress; birth and 

 marriage customs; indifference toward death. BUL- 

 GARIA Territory and population; Mongolo-Tartar origin; 



