Africa and its inhabitants . zingo. The who have a turn ^.rtrade, like their Ba-Kalc relatives, but who are less degraded by contact thewhites, appear to be also more sedentary and conservative of the old tnbal women, who are of hercidean strength, are ^d by a of tattooing, executed in relief on the breast, and lik. «^unda nngh-bours, all the Ba-Ngwes a:e passionately fond of sal., swallowing it by hundfuls. ««gre^edy white childien do sugar. 396 WEST AFRICA. The Fans. Most of the region east of the Gaboon and north of the Ogoway is
Africa and its inhabitants . zingo. The who have a turn ^.rtrade, like their Ba-Kalc relatives, but who are less degraded by contact thewhites, appear to be also more sedentary and conservative of the old tnbal women, who are of hercidean strength, are ^d by a of tattooing, executed in relief on the breast, and lik. «^unda nngh-bours, all the Ba-Ngwes a:e passionately fond of sal., swallowing it by hundfuls. ««gre^edy white childien do sugar. 396 WEST AFRICA. The Fans. Most of the region east of the Gaboon and north of the Ogoway is now held bythe Fan intruders, who have driven towards the south-west all the other indi-genous and immigrant populations. When the French first settled in the Gaboonthe Fans were almost unknown, although so early as 1819 Bowditch had alreadymentioned them under the name of Paiimways, describing them as a Fulah most advanced villages were at that time still restricted to the hUly inland Fig. 191,—Fan plateaux north of the Ogoway affluents; now they have become the immediateneighbours of the Mpongwes of Glass and Libreville on the banks of the Komo,stretching north to the confines of the Ba-Tonga territory, while south of theGaboon their pioneers have abeady reached the coast at several points. The SyakeFans occupy the zone of rapids above the Ivindo; the Osyebas have crossed themiddle Ogoway, and others have even penetrated to the Rembo Obenga in the deltaregion. Dreaded by all their neighbours, the Fans are at present a rising power, THE FANS. 897 who become undisputed masters wherever they present themselves. In the districtsknown to the whites their numbers are estimated at two hundred thousand, andsince the middle of the century they are said to have increased threefold both byconstant immigration and by the natural excess of births over the mortality. Thefuture of French influence in this region depends mainly on the relations that maybe establish
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