Africa and its inhabitants . KWANGO BASIN. 4J3 been regularty visited by Portuguese traders for tlie last three Imndred years, uudits markets have served as the intermediaries of traffic between the west coast andthe uncivilised inland populations. In the Upper Kwango Valley the dominant people are still the Kiokos of theUpper Kassai. Farther north follow the Minungos on both banks, savagemarauders broken into numerous tribal groups without auy political the influence of the Portuguese Catholics, to the national fetishes they huvoadded wooden and copper crosses, and even crucif
Africa and its inhabitants . KWANGO BASIN. 4J3 been regularty visited by Portuguese traders for tlie last three Imndred years, uudits markets have served as the intermediaries of traffic between the west coast andthe uncivilised inland populations. In the Upper Kwango Valley the dominant people are still the Kiokos of theUpper Kassai. Farther north follow the Minungos on both banks, savagemarauders broken into numerous tribal groups without auy political the influence of the Portuguese Catholics, to the national fetishes they huvoadded wooden and copper crosses, and even crucifixes obtained from the wliitotraders. Below the Minungo territory the western slope of the Kwango Valleyis occupied by the Ba-Ngala, agriculturists and traders, who have long maintaineddirect relations with the Portuguese, from whom they have learnt to build largewell-ventilated houses with gables and high-pitched roofs. Slaves are uo longer Pig. 252.—Residence op the Muene Puto 1: 250,000. VrPOUTO KASSOWOO. ?i 17°,0 Ejt-T Gr<T-r N , 3 iUlcs. slaughtered at the graves of the great chiefs, but the succession is u. thefemale line, to the eldest son of the eldest sister. The yag^i or that ...the supreme soba, or chief of the Ba-Ngala nation, is by four ^.whose choice is Hmited to the members of three to thePortuguese traders, these electors mix a subtle poison with the cup ,-,l to. the new king, who is thus brought to the grave within a perio<l of thrt* reigning sovereign, however, has dispensed with this inconvenient to be master ,ie facto if not,/. !.. 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 revo
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