Africa and its inhabitants . only plant extensively cidtivated is coffee, which is largely gmwu by a Frenchhouse along the west bank of the Albi. Here arc found three species of monkej-s,including the chimpanzee; the elephant also is occasionally seen on the the hippopotamus, which formerly frecpiented the creeks and lagoons, hasalmost entirely disappeared, at least from the Assini district, phaper has iijet the. SE niE KINO OK ASSIM INnABITANTS OF THE rVORY COAST. 2S0 sloughs of pythons over thirty feet long and twenty inches round in the notwithstanding their size, these
Africa and its inhabitants . only plant extensively cidtivated is coffee, which is largely gmwu by a Frenchhouse along the west bank of the Albi. Here arc found three species of monkej-s,including the chimpanzee; the elephant also is occasionally seen on the the hippopotamus, which formerly frecpiented the creeks and lagoons, hasalmost entirely disappeared, at least from the Assini district, phaper has iijet the. SE niE KINO OK ASSIM INnABITANTS OF THE rVORY COAST. 2S0 sloughs of pythons over thirty feet long and twenty inches round in the notwithstanding their size, these animals are little dreaded by the natives. Inhabitants. The populations in the western districts of the Ivory Coast are still classed asKroomen. The Glebes (Gleboe), as they are called, belong probably to the samestock as their western neighbours, the Grebes, and the two names are perhaps fun-damentally one. Cannibalism is said to have only recently disappeared, and mentionis made of a tribe in this district with su(;h a limited vocabulary that their speechrequires to be supplemented by continuous gestures and play of features. On thebanks of the Gle lagoon report speaks of a colony of fetish women, vowed to celi-bacy, and governed by a queen, who by means of certain herbs develops a kind ofartificial elephantiasis. All male children bom in these Amazonian villages areat once put to death, but girls are carefully
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