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Excerpt from The Ila-Speaking Peoples of Northern Rhodesia, Vol. 1 of 2 We have aimed throughout at drawing information from the old men. We became on friendly terms with many of the elderly Chiefs, and in particular with Mungalo of Kasenga, who gave us a great deal of information, and whose death was not only a loss to our book, but was felt with great personal sorrow by us both. None of our native informants, we may mention, spoke English. These native texts we desired to publish in parallel columns with an English translation, in imitation of Dr. Calloway's Religious System of the Amazulu, but this has not been found possible. We have quoted the translation largely, and often where no quotation marks are employed our descriptions follow it Closely. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.