Africa and its inhabitants . .nr. !.. take- .honame of Kassa„je from the king, although better known to the PortugueM. by thename of Felra, or the Fair. Here are effected the changes betwejn. hc«^traders and the Kioko and Lunda merchants from the .ntonor. IHbO ^cPortuguese at ; but in that year a revolution broke ou^ were plundered, the orange groves cut down, uud of twenty-one tnulcr. 494 WEST AFRICA. only seven escaped with their lives. Since then, however, the Portuguesesuzerainty has been again accepted. At the Kwango-Kassai confluen
Africa and its inhabitants . .nr. !.. take- .honame of Kassa„je from the king, although better known to the PortugueM. by thename of Felra, or the Fair. Here are effected the changes betwejn. hc«^traders and the Kioko and Lunda merchants from the .ntonor. IHbO ^cPortuguese at ; but in that year a revolution broke ou^ were plundered, the orange groves cut down, uud of twenty-one tnulcr. 494 WEST AFRICA. only seven escaped with their lives. Since then, however, the Portuguesesuzerainty has been again accepted. At the Kwango-Kassai confluence the ruling race are the Ba-Teke, althoughnunaerous villages are also occupied by the Wa-Buma, who are the same people asthe A-Boma of the French Congo. These traders and boatmen come down fromthe Kassai to Stanley Pool, where they transfer their commodities to the portersby whom the exchanges are effected with the Lower Congo. The Wa-Buma are Fig. 253.—Density of the Population in the Conoo 1: 23,000, Densely Peopled. Peopled. Thinly Peopled. 300 Miles. Unexplored or Waste. an intelligent, industrious, and cheerful people, whose supreme chief is a queenresiding at Moshi, a place of about three thousand inhabitants, crowning a highcliff on the right bank of the Kwa. On the bluff rising above the south side ofthe Kassai-Congo confluence stands the station bearing the English name ofKwamouth, given to it before the Kwa was known to constitute the lower courseof the vast Kassai-Sankuru-Kwango fluvial system. The stations of N(jomhe, Lukolela, and Bolobo, on the left bank of the Congoabove Kwamouth, although abandoned by the Congo Government, are still much- THE LOWER CONGO. 495 frequented ti-cading places. Eolobo, with its suburb of Moye, is a large town offrom five thousand to ten thousand inhabitants, and is succeeded liO miles higherup by Tchumbiri, also a populous place. Hero the dominant riverain people arethe Ba-Yanzi (Ba-Nyanzi), akin to the Bu-Bangh
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