. Land and peoples of the Kasai; being a narrative of a two years' journey among the cannibals of the equatorial forest and other savage tribes of the south-western Congo . Gandu, SON of the chief of Removing \ i vdys eyelashes. INTO THE UNKNOWN COUNTRY 309 in calabashes to these meeting-places, where groups offriends, to the number of half-a-dozen or a dozen, sit down,smoke their pipes, and drink while discussing the localgossip. The habits of the Bakongo at their clubs are certainlynot so temperate as they might be, but we soon found thatas a rule they were, when drunk, more agre
. Land and peoples of the Kasai; being a narrative of a two years' journey among the cannibals of the equatorial forest and other savage tribes of the south-western Congo . Gandu, SON of the chief of Removing \ i vdys eyelashes. INTO THE UNKNOWN COUNTRY 309 in calabashes to these meeting-places, where groups offriends, to the number of half-a-dozen or a dozen, sit down,smoke their pipes, and drink while discussing the localgossip. The habits of the Bakongo at their clubs are certainlynot so temperate as they might be, but we soon found thatas a rule they were, when drunk, more agreeable and moreanxious to please us than when sober, so that although forthe first few days we were rather uncertain as to what theirdemeanour towards us might be when the liquor got intothem, we soon came to regard the existence of these clubs asrather a help than a hindrance to our progress. At Kanen-enke our men were often invited to partake of refreshmentby the natives, and on one or two occasions we ourselveswere offered a drink by some convivial spirit when we passedthe clubs on our way back from shooting guinea-fowls inthe evening. Although palm wine is generally drunk outof quaintly carved wooden
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