Sochi Mountain, 6, 46; haunted, 51. Songs, 216, 224. Sosola cheats Angoni, 281. Spider in African folk-lore, 74, 239-40. Spirit-huts, 47, 48, 50. Spirits propitiated, 46-49, etc. kept in hut on Morambala, 61. prayed to, 62. possess and inspire the living, 63. heard drumming and singing in Bush, 66. Spoons (ladles), 139. Stocks, 267-8. Story-telling, 121, 230, 251. String-making, 118. Stringed instruments, 221-2. Succession to chieftainship, 259. Sugar-cane, 108, 176. Sureties of husbands and wives, 132-4. Tabu, 94-6. Talismans carried by hunters, 188. Tambuka. _See_ Batumbuka. Tatuing. _See_ Keloids. Teeth chipped, 41-43. Temples, 63. Theal, Dr. M’Call, quoted, 276. Theft, secret, regarded with horror, 84. punishment of, 264. Thorn-trees, 15. Thunder personified, 57. Tingani, Nyanja chief, 255. Tobacco, 178. Torrend, Rev. J., S.J., quoted, 33. Tortoise in folk-lore, 232, 239. Traps, various kinds, 189-90. sham, made by women to frighten hippos, 183. Trees, 14-15. sacred, 50, 52, 62, 101. for canoe-making, 194. Tribute paid to chiefs, 269-70. Tshaka, Zulu king, 278. Tuchila River, 7. Tyolo Mountain, 7, 60. _Uncle Remus_, 231 _et seq._ ‘Undertakers’ (_adzukulo_ or _awilo_), 159, 161 _et seq._ Undi, Nyanja chief, 26, 256. Unkulunkulu = Mulungu, 54. _Unyago._ _See_ Mysteries. Villages described, 99 _et seq._ Volcanic action, traces of, 6. Wailing for dead, 157-8. War, burial of men killed in, 160, 289. War-arrows, 187. War-dances, 228-9. Watch-huts in gardens, 183. Weaving, 195-6. Weirs for catching fish, 192. Whale represented in mysteries, 97. Whistles, 188, 223. Widows, re-marriage of, 167. Witchcraft, 84 _et seq._, 168, 266-7. Women preside over religious ceremonies, 56, 77. their meals, 139. position of, 148 _et seq._ work of, 135-6, 197, 204-6, 207. Yao, captured and married by ‘Angoni,’ 133. clean out wells to bring rain, 77. chiefs, 256. Wood-carving, 203. Woodward, Ven. H. W. (Archdeacon of Magila), quoted, 22. Yaos (Wayao or Ajawa), 24, 31, 51 _et seq._ tribe-marks, 39. tooth-chipping, 42. special deities, 58. come from Mangoche Mountain, 58. notions as to blood-guiltiness, 67. birth-customs, 112. betrothal and marriage customs, 129 _et seq._ man lives at wife’s village, 131. language, 211. tales, 234, 236, 239 _et seq._ trace descent through mother, 252. their old home in Lujenda valley, 257, 276. five branches of tribe, 258. Young, E. D., quoted, 283. Zambezi River, 1, 3, 4, 25. crossed by Angoni, 280. Zebra, 9, 17. Zinyao dances, 97-8, 127-8. Zomba, 7, 98, 259, 283. Zulu spoken by Angoni, 35. Zulus, 34, 35, 54, 72, 129, 271, 277-8. Zwangendaba, Zulu chief, 279. Zwide ka’ Yanga, Zulu chief, 278.