Africa and its inhabitants . are divided into small tribal or familygroups, dwelling in the recesses of the forests, remote from all beaten tracts, in lowleafy huts, scarcely to be distinguished from the surrounding vegetation. TheirA-Shango neighbours treat them with great kindness, almost with teudemesa, Fig. 192.—The Baxya Laooon and Ba-Luhbo Codntrt. Scale 1 : 2,400, ^^ L-rcof b rpenw^cn Deptlu. Oto 80 Fc-ct. SOFoctand upwartla. CO Miles. and when any of their women appear at the markets they arc laden with bananas and other fruits. In the Okanda country they hunt, the py
Africa and its inhabitants . are divided into small tribal or familygroups, dwelling in the recesses of the forests, remote from all beaten tracts, in lowleafy huts, scarcely to be distinguished from the surrounding vegetation. TheirA-Shango neighbours treat them with great kindness, almost with teudemesa, Fig. 192.—The Baxya Laooon and Ba-Luhbo Codntrt. Scale 1 : 2,400, ^^ L-rcof b rpenw^cn Deptlu. Oto 80 Fc-ct. SOFoctand upwartla. CO Miles. and when any of their women appear at the markets they arc laden with bananas and other fruits. In the Okanda country they hunt, the python withassegais and eagerly devour its flesh. But although keeping mostly aloof fromthe surrounding peoples, the A-Bongos are gradually adopting their usagis. The mixed populations dwelling near the coast, .south of the Nyungu river,and collectively known as Ba-Inmibos or Ba-Vilis, consist largely of ruimwuyslaves from the Gaboon and Congo factories, who have taken refuge on IIiIhinhospitable seaboard, where they arc sheltered from attack by the surf-beatenshore and surrounding swamps and forests. By alliances with the abp powerful fetishes, which forbi
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