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NOTES 



BY FREDERICK STANLEY ARNOT. 



CHAPTER I. 



T. Pageg, I. 12. — Dr. Livingstone, following the example of Dr. Moffat, 

 used the Dutch alphabet in writing down Sechuana words, so that Banoga 

 is pronounced Banoga. 



2 Page 10, /. 20. — Dr. Livingstone follows the custom here of calling 

 the Zulus " Caffres." When the Arabs first sailed down the East Coast of 

 Africa they sought to impose their Mohammedan beliefs upon the natives. 

 The Swahili tribes along the Zanzibar coast seemed to have been more 

 amenable, but the Zulus resisted, so the Arabs called them "Caffres" 

 (infidels). We must not suppose that the Bechuanas, among whom Living- 

 stone laboured, belonged to a different race. It is recognised now by all 

 competent authorities that the negroes of Central and South Africa belong 

 to one great family, which, by common consent, has been called the Bantu 

 family. It is interesting to observe how these tribes lie pretty much 

 north and south, suggesting that they all filtered down from the north 

 in a natural sort of a way. The original mass would be divided in the 

 migration southward by the great lakes and the upper tributaries of the 

 Congo, and wars and jealousies as to the occupation of the country would 

 keep these sections apart. 



3. Page 15, /. 23. — Polygamy is the most perplexing question the mis- 

 sionary in Africa has to deal with. It ought not to be considered in a 

 harsh and unsympathetic spirit. The more the native customs and ways 

 are understood, the more difficult does the matter appear. (1) After the birth 

 of a child, for instance, husband and wife are temporally divorced for 

 three years. (2) In some tribes complimentary marriages between young 

 men and old women are usual ; of course, in time the husband is supposed 

 to marry his second and proper wife. (3) Chiefs depend upon their many 

 wives, and the relationships thus formed, for protection against intrigue 

 and the breakings out of revolt in distant parts of the country. 



CHAPTER II. 



4. Page 31, /. 1. — This custom may have come from the command 

 (Leviticus vii. 31) to give the breast of the peace-offering to the high 

 priest and his sons, as an African chief is also priest. The practice of 

 circumcision, common in Africa, may also be accounted for in the same 



