Bates, Oric [Editor]: Varia Africana (Band 3) (Cambridge, Mass., 1922)

TABLE OF CONTENTS

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INTRODUCTION. 11
PHONETIC VALUE OF THE CHARACTERS. 17
SONGS. 18
I. Songs on Historical Subjects
(а) The Independent Galla States. 18
(б) The conquest of the Galla kingdoms by Menilek II. 70
(c) The Italo-Abyssinian war (1896). 98
II. War and Hunting Songs.'.100
III. Love Songs. 107
IV. Nuptial Songs. 119
V. Cradle Songs.123
VI. Festive and Religious Songs
(a) Pagan.127
(b) Christian. 145
VII. Caravan Songs.146
VIII. Pastoral Songs. 147
PROSE. 148
I. Texts on Historical Subjects
The chronicle of the Guma kingdom. 148
The holy war of Hassan Ingamo.162
The death of Captain Bottego.165
II. Texts on Ethnological Subjects
The rites of initiation.167
The investiture of the Abba Bokku. 1"6
Blood-price.181
III. Texts of Magic and Prophetic Literature. 181
IV. Humorous Prose (Hdsa) . 190
V. Proverbs. 191
VI. Riddles. 198
APPENDIX.200
The Watta: a low caste of hunters.200
INDEX OF PROPER NAMES.215

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