^{page 26 note 1} Wray's little grammar is the only source directly dealing with the Teita, though only the Sagalla branch. Wray, J. A., An elementary introduction to the Taita language, London, 1894Google Scholar.

^{page 27 note 1} Not the governmental unit but the sublocation, which is an original native unit.

^{page 27 note 1} Statement in English; I am not sure whether the Dabida word for number (mtalo) was used.

^{page 27 note 3} A Dabida man cannot readily understand a Msagalla.

^{page 27 note 4} There are types among them which might be described as Hamites. I met some Sagalla askaris who showed a striking resemblance to a few Galla in the Kenya Police, whom I saw afterwards.

^{page 28 note 1} Acknowledgement to Mr. H. E. Lambert.

^{page 28 note 2} Plural vichuku.

^{page 28 note 3} Cf. Malinowshi, , Argonauts, p. 365Google Scholar, and Fischer, , Man, 1938, 181.Google Scholar

^{page 29 note 1} Though associated with recognized first occupation-sites.

^{page 29 note 2} The whole of the three Teita Reserves, Dabida, Sagalla, and Kasigao, is divided up into eight territorial locations (mitaa) each with an appointed chief as ruler.

^{page 30 note 1} Authority, however, is one of the subjects about which I am not well informed.

^{page 30 note 2} The Wambisha on Mbololo do not use this Kiruma language as far as I know.

^{page 30 note 3} A synonymous term might be vwenimwana as E. J. A. Leslie has suggested.

^{page 30 note 4} Some of my informants thought that clan and lineage were both rendered by the word kichuku, but kivalo was specifically clan and not lineage; in fact, the opposite is true.

^{page 30 note 5} Sometimes, in Mgangi, a whole district bears this kind of name: Gwavweniwalo for instance.

^{page 31 note 1} That is, not dispersed over different districts.

^{page 32 note 1} This rule seems to come into operation only at the early death of the father.

^{page 33 note 1} Eldest sons never move outside the village; in case of strife with their father they usually leave his homestead-duster and move over to the other side of the village.

^{page 33 note 2} Then they will go and live with their paternal grandmother, who is living near or at their father's homestead.

^{page 34 note 1} It seems to me that this is perhaps at the root of the fact that the nyumba is a more important group in districts with a shortage of cattle.

^{page 34 note 2} The last two items are not exclusively or peculiarly characteristic, (d) Usually the father only provides the cattle. (e) Wives of the component vinyumba assist also in building, and even members of the kivalo outside the nyumba might take part in it.

^{page 36 note 1} P. 35. Dynamics of Clanship.