CHAPTER XI.—PERSONAL RIGHTS. (77) Slavery. (78-81) Murder and Homicide. (82) Unchastity, 165-174 CHAPTER XII.—RIGHTS OF PROPERTY. (83-91) Public Property, Land, &c. (92) Private Property. (93) Usury. (94) Petty Theft. (95) Theft and Robbery. (96) Miscellaneous Crimes, 175-186 CHAPTER XIII.—INHERITANCE AND INTERNATIONAL LAW. (97, 98) Succession to Property and Titles. (99-101) International Law and War, 187-195 CHAPTER XIV.—A SLAVE GOVERNMENT. (102, 103) The Magololo and their Rule. (104) Cruelties of a Slave Government, 196-203 CHAPTER XV.—WITCHCRAFT. (105) The Poisoned Cup. (106) Witchcraft the cause of Death. (107) Detection and Punishment of Witches, Divination, 204-214 CHAPTER XVI.—ETHNOLOGY. Ethnological Method, Tribal Customs, East Central Africa, South Africa, West and North Africa, Races of Antiquity, 215-234 CHAPTER XVII.—AFRICAN PHILOLOGY. A Philosophical Language. Vocabulary, number and nature of African Words. Grammar, as compared with that of the Aryan and Semitic Tongues, 235-245 CHAPTER XVIII.—AFRICAN PHILOLOGY—_Continued._ Imitation of Sounds and Speech. The _Polyglotta Africana_. Specialties in African Tongues, 246-257 CHAPTER XIX.—ESTIMATE OF NATIVE CHARACTER. _Physical_: Features, Figures, Powers of Endurance. _Moral_: Truthfulness, Avarice. _Intellectual_: Native Oratory. Effect of their circumstances on Character. Docility in Religion, 258-276 APPENDIX.—COSMOLOGICAL TALES. 277-301 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. VOL. I. The Letter Carrier, _Frontispiece_ South African making fire, 12 Liberated Slaves—Blantyre, 15 The Supelele, 17 Native Knives and Arrows, 19 Native Pipes and Pottery, 40 Natives in the African jungle, 176 Women of West Central Africa, 226 Native Musical Instrument, 272 INTRODUCTORY. INTRODUCTORY. There are no books, so far as we are aware, that aim at giving a systematic account of the beliefs and customs of any of the tribes in Eastern Central Africa. Indeed, it is not long since these tribes have been known at all. Those beliefs and customs are to a great extent _Arcana Africana_, and form the main subject of this work.