"Notes on the Folklore of the Fjort."
I wish first of all to express my gratitude to Miss M. H. Kingsley and Mr. E. Sidney Hartland for their great and disinterested kindness in putting my manuscript into a state for publication. I alone, I think, know how truly arduous that task must have been. Please also convey my thanks to Mr. W. H. D. Rouse.
The frontispiece, "Fjort mother and child," is from one of Miss M. H. Kingsley's plates. "A Bakutu who came to Loango to see Nzambi" was taken from a photograph taken by Monsieur J. Audema, of Paris. The other three plates are from photographs taken by Father Marschelle and the Fathers of the Roman Catholic Mission in Loango. I am sorry, that owing to my not having seen the proofs of the plates, their names were not mentioned in Notes on the Folk-lore of the Fjort as the authors of the same. I trust, however, that they will accept this my tardy thanks for their valuable aid, which has added so greatly to the interest of the work.
Errata.
Introduction, page xxxii, "Ncanlam" should be "Neanlau."
Pages 8 and 137. In Kakongo the four days of the week are Tono, Silu, Nkandu, Nsona; in Loango, Tono, Silu, Nduka, Nsona. Nduka and Nkandu are therefore the same day; the negative ka preceding ndu in Kakongo, instead of following it, as in Loango.
Page 148, read "The Fjort cannot roll his r, so puts l in its place." That is to say, that Fjort cannot say "gira," but says "gila" instead, hence the word Chegila or Kegila. Line 4, read "is (s.) xina (plural) Bina."
Page 149, for "Ampakala," read "mpakaça"; "Bakutu," read "Bikulu"; "Fahi," read "Futu."
Page 158, for "Aujéi," read "Anjéi"; "rata," read "vata."
Page 162, line 8. Nzala is the same word as yalla, and both mean hunger; for "through" therefore read "hunger."
