children almost unintelligible to a member of a primitive race.
These two volumes are far from perfect, but it has been difficult to
know always how to select wisely from the mass of material at hand.
They will have served, however, a useful purpose if they form a basis
for adaptations into the various African vernaculars, and afford an
inspiration for other works of a similar nature. Thanks are due to
Miss K. Nixon Smith, of the Universities Mission to Central Africa,
for her kindness in criticizing the MSS. from her long experience of
the African outlook.

EDITH A. HOW
_June_, 1920.

I
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INTRODUCTION

In this book we are going to read about some of the other people who
live in our own great country--Africa. Africa is very, very large, so
big that no one would be able to go to all the places in it. But
different people have been to different parts, and have told what they
saw where they went. Wherever our home in Africa may be, if we walked
towards the sunrise--that is, towards the east--day after day, at last
we should reach the great salt sea. Again, if we walked towards the
sunset in the west, we should at last get to the sea. To the north,
again, is the sea, and to the south, the sea. Whichever way we
walked, at last, after many months, we should be stopped by the sea.
But on our journey we should have met many different kinds of people,
and have seen many different customs. In some places there would be
rivers, in some mountains, in some deserts, with no trees or grass to