Chapter IX Some Customs, Games, and a Journey

Chapter X Our Reception and Entertainment

Chapter XI Satu visits the White Man

Chapter XII Native Games and Pastimes

Chapter XIII Bakula accompanies an Embassy

Chapter XIV Bakula stays with the White Man

Chapter XV Satu receives a Title

Chapter XVI Hunting and Bush-burning

Chapter XVII Satu and his People go to War

Chapter XVIII Governing, Marketing, and Trading Customs

Chapter I En Route to Congo

Chapter XIX An Accusation and the Ordeal

Chapter XX Bakula at School

Chapter XXI Bakula’s Work checked

Chapter XXII Bakula Falsely Accused and Murdered

Chapter II My Journey up the Congo

Chapter XXIII I Find many Changes

Chapter XXIV A Marriage and a Harvest Festival

Chapter XXV Mikula at the Christmas Festival

NOTES TO PART I

Chapter III My Overland Journey Begins

Chapter IV We reach the Town of my Owner

Chapter V A Funeral Orgy

Chapter VI Our Town Life

Chapter VII The Search for the Witch

Chapter VIII Visitors Arrive

INTRODUCTION TO THE FOLKLORE TALES

I How the Fowl evaded his Debt

II Why the Small-ant was the Winner

III How the Animals imitated the Gazelle and brought Trouble upon Themselves

IV Why the Fowls never shut their Doors

V Why the Dog and the Palm-rat hate each other

VI The Leopard boils his Mother’s Teeth

VII How the Ants saved the Partridge’s Eggs

VIII The Leopard sticks to the Nkondi (Wooden Image)

IX How the Mouse won his Wife

X The Gazelle outwits the Leopard

XI The Gazelle punishes the Palm-rat for breaking his promise

XII How the Crow cheated the Dove and got into Difficulty through it

XXIX The Leopard tries to steal the Gazelle’s Wife

XXX The Gazelle kills the Flies and Mosquitoes, and outwits the Leopard

XXXI The Leopard is Badly Tricked by the Gazelle, Rat and Frog