Africa and its inhabitants . ll. The fame of the Niam-NIams had long been spread abroad amongst the Nubiansand Sudanese Arabs; but the mirage jjroduced by distance conjured up strangevisions of this mysterious people, picturing them rather as a superior kind of apethan as members of the human family. The famous tailed men, reported bytravellers beyond the Upper NIIq regions, were supposed to be none other than the THE NIAM-NIAMS. 471 Zandehs, who nevertheless, milike the Bongos, did not even wear an ox-tail,which, at a distance, might present the appearance of a natural appendix. Stillless cou
Africa and its inhabitants . ll. The fame of the Niam-NIams had long been spread abroad amongst the Nubiansand Sudanese Arabs; but the mirage jjroduced by distance conjured up strangevisions of this mysterious people, picturing them rather as a superior kind of apethan as members of the human family. The famous tailed men, reported bytravellers beyond the Upper NIIq regions, were supposed to be none other than the THE NIAM-NIAMS. 471 Zandehs, who nevertheless, milike the Bongos, did not even wear an ox-tail,which, at a distance, might present the appearance of a natural appendix. Stillless could the illusion be created by the skins of animals which they wear wrappedround the loins. But on the other hand the lorni Niani-Niani, or eater.*!, upplicdalso, however, by the Nubians to numerous other , is certainly justiKed liythe cannibalistic practices at least of some of the Zandeh communities. Piaggia,who was the first to traverse the Nilotic .section of tlieir domain in 186;j-65, Fig. 240.—NiAM-NlAM noticed only one instance of cannibalisn,. that of a .lain who . the victors. It seems evident that on ,he whole the /.uulehj an- ar to the habit than the , although of ••?••;•• ^^tradition prevails of eating captives and those who .lie A tainted by skin conudaint. are ^khI for the .« doEven those who abstain from hmnan flesh are extremely canuvorv^us. n. nl>on dogs, game, and poultry, for they raise no largo anunaU m charact istic that their essentially agricultural and ^ 472 WEST AFEICA. neighbours the same woid means sorghum and to eat, which in the Niam-Niam and Fan dialects has the signification of flesh and food. The Zandehs are round-headed, with straight nose, wide nostrils, full cheeksand lips, round and almost feminine features, an effect which is heightened by theirpeculiar st
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