. 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 . A B \l ETELA I! \ll. I A WALL II 1 I RES. + IN THE BATETELA COUNTRY 53 of those peoples who daub themselves with clay apply freshearth with such regularity as to cause the practice to be byno means so dirty as it sounds; of course some tribes thatwe visited were filthy in the extreme, but these were the ex-ception rather than the rule. Upon leaving Osodu, whichwe did accompanied by the local band and with ever
. 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 . A B \l ETELA I! \ll. I A WALL II 1 I RES. + IN THE BATETELA COUNTRY 53 of those peoples who daub themselves with clay apply freshearth with such regularity as to cause the practice to be byno means so dirty as it sounds; of course some tribes thatwe visited were filthy in the extreme, but these were the ex-ception rather than the rule. Upon leaving Osodu, whichwe did accompanied by the local band and with every signof goodwill on the part of the inhabitants, we entered atract of country strongly resembling the downs of Sussex,except that the hollows were as a rule filled with woodlandand contained brooks, and the grass was, of course, longerand coarser. The march to the village of Mokunji occupiedabout three hours. As we came within sight of the villagewe could see a large crowd waiting to receive us, and wewere met by a man bringing us a complimentary present ofpine apples and bananas who informed us that the Jadi him-self was awating our arrival a little farther on. Nearer tothe village we m
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