Extraordinary account of way of life and customs of African tribes. The book deals with the interior world, wild, strange and weird, of the African: mental habits and beliefs, fetishism and folklore. To us, who think of nature as the realm of law, order, and uniformity, the world of the African seems to have gone mad. “This madness, however, is more apparent than real. The African thinks in terms of the miraculous; natural effects are explained by supernatural causes; supernatural, but not therefore unintelligible, still less irrational. Therefore, if we should not find the fabled thread out of this amazing labyrinth of fetishism, it may be possible to find a thread into it ; and not only possible, but also worth while, if within the labyrinth we shall find the African himself and come to know him, mind and heart, a little better.”