CHAPTER IX LANGUAGE AND ORAL LITERATURE Structure of the Bantu languages. Riddles. Songs. Music and dancing. Story-telling, 208 CHAPTER X FOLK-STORIES Methods of story-telling. Animal stories. _Brer Rabbit._ Borrowed tales. Value of native folk-lore, 230 CHAPTER XI TRIBAL ORGANISATION, GOVERNMENT, ETC. Totemistic clans. Kinship counted through women. The paramount chief: his powers. Succession to the chieftainship. Administration of justice. Crime and punishment. Slavery, 252 CHAPTER XII TRADITIONS AND HISTORY Probable origin of the Yaos. The Makalanga. Undi. Migrations of the Angoni. The Tambuka, 276 BIBLIOGRAPHY, 288 ADDENDA, 289 GLOSSARY, 292 INDEX, 295 ERRATA Page 42, line 23, _for_ fourth, _read_ first. ” 100, line 12. The illustration referred to has not been included in the volume, but the same type of square house may be seen in Plate 16. ” 192, last line. This illustration has not been included. ” 199, last line, _for_ Pl. 23, _read_ Pl. 18. LIST OF PLATES PLATE I. Women carrying water-jars, Chiromo, _Frontispiece_ II. Carriers resting in the Bush, _facing page_ 9 III. Chingomanje Stream, Mlanje, ” 16 IV. Hut built on platform as a defence against lions, ” 18 V. Two Yao women, ” 32 VI. Group of Anguru, ” 33 VII. A Mnguru, showing keloids, ” 39 VIII. Fashions in tooth-chipping, ” 42 IX. (1) Exceptional coiffure of Mngoni, } ” 44 (2) Women making porridge, } X. The Progress of Civilisation! ” 45 XI. Tree with offerings, Ndirande Mountain, ” 50 XII. (1) Women on Likoma Island, } ” 105 (2) A Makua family, } XIII. (1) _Mchombwa_ game, } ” 113 (2) Nyanja ball-game, }