. The Victoria Nyanza; the land, the races and their customs, with specimens of some of the dialects . — Weapons : Spears, knives, shields,arrows — War — Musical instruments — Dances — Songs —Wicker - work — Baskets — Superstitions — Magicians — Rain-makers—God—Devil—Fetishes — Marriage — Adultery—Birth —Death - ... 137-174 CHAPTER VIII. USHASHI AND THE KINDRED TRIBES OF THE MASSAI FROM1KOMA AS FAR AS NGOROINE. Soil—Language—Walled villages — Hut — Fireplace— Bedstead—Granary—Agriculture — Pombe — Sucking-tubes — Mattocksor hoes — Axes — Ornaments—Hair — Tattooing—Weapons :Shields, bows, arrow
. The Victoria Nyanza; the land, the races and their customs, with specimens of some of the dialects . — Weapons : Spears, knives, shields,arrows — War — Musical instruments — Dances — Songs —Wicker - work — Baskets — Superstitions — Magicians — Rain-makers—God—Devil—Fetishes — Marriage — Adultery—Birth —Death - ... 137-174 CHAPTER VIII. USHASHI AND THE KINDRED TRIBES OF THE MASSAI FROM1KOMA AS FAR AS NGOROINE. Soil—Language—Walled villages — Hut — Fireplace— Bedstead—Granary—Agriculture — Pombe — Sucking-tubes — Mattocksor hoes — Axes — Ornaments—Hair — Tattooing—Weapons :Shields, bows, arrows, poison, quivers, swords, knives—Tools—The chase —Pitfalls—Fishing — Tobacco-pipes —Wicker-work — Milk-cans—Music—Drums— Flutes—Guitars—Signal-horns—Magic ...... i75-2°9 PHILOLOGICAL NOTES. A. General 211, 212 B. One Hundred and Twenty-five Sentences in six Dialects - - - 213-231 C. Vocabularies - 232-244 D. A Tale in the Uganda Dialect - 244-249Index - 250-254 UNIVERSITY of CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES LIBRARY. IK-0 Elmorau 160 Kilometres = English Miles. THE VICTORIA NYANZA: THE LAND, THE RACES, AND THEIR CUSTOMS. CHAPTER I. THE VICTORIA NYANZA. Tin: beautiful and extensive lake now called the VictoriaNyanza was undoubtedly known in dim the fabulous and exaggerated accounts oftravellers, however, the whole of the lake region of theinterior of Africa became so enveloped in tradition andfable that actual investigation was banished to the realmsof myth. We know from Ptolemy that the waters of acertain range of mountains called the Mountains of theMoon — (TsXfiuriQ opoq — fed two lakes whose effluentsunited later into a single stream, the Nile. Even ifgeographical errors have through this crept into ourmodern investigation, yet undeniable proof is affordedthat antiquity possessed knowledge of many kinds con-cerning these countries, and that this knowledge dis-appeared in l
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