ABSTRACT

The Official Fire-Water—Native Travellers—An Offer of Marriage—Visitors—Patients—The Cowrie—The “Library”—Native Collectors—Fauna of the “Library”—Flies—Fleas—Bugs—A Wongára Singing Man—Visits to the Limámu—Walks in the Bush—Birds—The Filament-winged Night-jar—Scarabæi—Evenings at Home—Venomous Spider—Author gives a Dance—Drum Music—West African Folk Lore—Fable of the Vulture and the Crow—Native Astronomy—Religious Ideas—The Abónsam or Devil—Inhabitants of the Moon.