INDEX 



1013 



Mutei tribe, 853, 870, 882, 883i 



MUTESA, king, 219, 221, 222, 224, 279, 682. 685 



MwANGA, ex-king, 106, 224 et sen., 230 et mn 



239, 243, 247, 682, 685 

 Mwengi, East Toro, 138, 594 

 Mweru, Lake, 133 

 Myrmeoooiolila (a chat), 11 



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

 Nakedness, see Nudity 



Nakua Eiver, 23 



Nakuro, Lake, 5, 11 



Name, naming (ceremonies or superstitions 

 connected with): Lendu. 553; Baganda, 

 691 : Ja-Iuo, 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, 298, 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 customo, 

 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 Dnyoro, 594 et seq , 677 



Neanderthaloid man, 474, 477 



Negative particle in Masai and Nilotic tongues, 

 887 ; in Pantn, 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 anima,ls 

 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 j 

 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. ; Hamitio influence 

 on various Negro raccF, 482 ; lines of migra- i 



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, 841 

 Nephila spiders, 410 

 Nettojjus (" pygmy " geese), 78, 397 

 Neumann, Oscar, 421 

 Nexiroptera, 468 

 -V<«' York Herald, the, 222 

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

 Niger, Nigeria, 27S, 624, S94 

 Nile Province, 143 et seq., 302, 309 

 Nile Eiver, 64 ; its birth, 70, 71, 143 et 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 et seq. 

 Nilotic Negroes, 144, 4X2, 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 .leq. ; 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 Hiraa 



(Unyoro) tribes, 587, 589, 678 

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



Hima, 616 

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

 Nudity of Negroes, 34, 47, 551, 581, 648-, 728, 



730, 765 et seq., 781,' 813, 862 

 Nyakach people, 789, 793 

 Nyala or Nyara, Ba-, 745, 902 

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

 Nyamukasa Eiver, 193 



Nyamwezi, M-, Wa-, Ki-, U-, 215, 216, 755 {also- 

 Anthropometric Observations, 487 et seq.), 

 798, 818, 821 

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



746, 798 

 Nyanzas, see Victoria, Albert, etc. 

 Nyarusi, see Enj^musi 

 Syasa, Lake, 2, 216 

 Nyasaland, 138, 874 

 Nyifwa, see Ja-luo 



Nyoro, Ba-, people, 566 it seq., 569, 581 et seq. ; 

 birth customs, 587 ; totems, 588 ; worehip 

 of ancestral spirits, 589 ; immorality, 590 ; 

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



