Spelling variants, inconsistent, archaic and unusual spelling,
hyphenation, capitalisation, use of accents, etc., also in proper and
geographical names and in non-English words, have been retained,
except as listed below. The names of peoples, tribes, other groups and
localities in particular occur in different variants. Factual and
textual errors, inconcistencies and contradictions have not been
corrected or standardised.
Depending on the hard- and software used to read this text, not all
elements may display as intended.
Index: the deviations from the alphabetical order of the main entries
have not been corrected.
Page viii, ix and others: the map and Appendices may be found in Vol.
2.
Page xii ff., tables: The totals given do not always correspond to the
data given; this has not been corrected.
Changes made:
Footnotes and illustrations have been moved outside text paragraphs.
Some obvious minor punctuation and printing errors have been corrected
silently.
In several tables and lists ditto characters („) have been replaced
with the dittoed text.
Page xvii: Entry Illustration “A village in K’hutu. The Silk Cotton
Tree” added.
In the Index, some spelling and page numbering errors have been
corrected silently in order to conform to the text.
Index: The Index was not included in the original Volume I, but has
been copied from Volume II for the sake of convenience and
completeness.