Macdonald. Africana

Today's free book is Africana by Duff Macdonald (1882). For the table of contents, check at the bottom of this post below the image. Duff Macdonald was a missionary of the Church of Scotland at Blantyre in southern Malawi between 1878 and 1881.

The book is available at Hathi Trust (I have not checked for other online sources).



Table of Contents

Cosmological Tales

1. People
2. The Sun
3. The Moon
4. Stars
5. Clouds
6. Wind
7. Rain or Lightning
8. The Bow of the Lightning
9. Mountains and Rivers
10. Cooking Pots and Mortars
11. Hoes, Knives, and Axes
12. Baskets
13. Clothing
14. Death
15. Mortality, The Chameleon, and the Salamander
16. Offerings
17. Bows and Guns
18. Cannibalism
19. Medicine
20. Fleas
21. Fishes
22. Birds
23. Elephants
24. Lions
25. The Serpent
26. Baboons
27. Other Accounts
28. Another Account of Man
29. Ntembe, The Brother of the Spirit
30. The Three Women

Folk Tales

31. The Dead Chief and his Younger Brother
32. The Chief that Hoed at the Graves
33. The Hyena, Mbendu (Civet-Cat), and the Hare [see note]
34. [no story with that number?]
35. Taming Monkeys and Buck
36. Taming Dogs
37. On Our Home
38. Kaliklanje
39. The Man and the Lion
40. The Roasted Seeds
41. Rombao
42. The Hyena and the Bees
43. The Crocodile
44. The Hare and the Bangles
45. The Hunter
46. The Elephant and the Hare
47. The Fish Eagle and the Mngomba
48. The Lad that Fed on Air
49. The Girl of Clay
50. The Python
51. Hide and Seek
52. The Man with Dogs
53. The Girl that Refused a Husband
54. The Guinea Fowl
55. The Man with Bran Porridge
56. Disobedience