Contents: "Contents ""; ""Maps and Figures ""; ""Preface ""; ""Acknowledgments ""; ""Note on Spelling ""; ""Chapter One: Voids and Blinders, Words and Things ""; ""Chapter Two: The Land and Its Settlement ""; ""Chapter Three: Tradition: Ancient and Common ""; ""Chapter Four: The Trail of the Leopard in the Inner Basin ""; ""Chapter Five: Between Ocean and Rivers ""; ""Chapter Six: The Eastern Uplands ""; ""Chapter Seven: Challenge from the Atlantic ""; ""Chapter Eight: Death of a Tradition ""; ""Chapter Nine: On History and Tradition ""; ""Appendix: Comparative Lexical Data ""; ""Notes "" ""Works Cited """"Index ""