A voice from the Congo : comprising stories, anecdotes, and descriptive notes . ral Africanraces may be ascribed to the following principal rea-sons: Firstly, to the plurality of women, for gener-ally speaking one finds the number of women isgreatly in excess of the male population, the reasonfor this being that men are so frequently killed intheir incessant intertribal battles. It necessarily fol-lows that the strongest and most enterprising ofthe men is generally the owner of the most wives,and consequently the fittest male becomes the fatherof the most children. Home life does not exist. Hu
A voice from the Congo : comprising stories, anecdotes, and descriptive notes . ral Africanraces may be ascribed to the following principal rea-sons: Firstly, to the plurality of women, for gener-ally speaking one finds the number of women isgreatly in excess of the male population, the reasonfor this being that men are so frequently killed intheir incessant intertribal battles. It necessarily fol-lows that the strongest and most enterprising ofthe men is generally the owner of the most wives,and consequently the fittest male becomes the fatherof the most children. Home life does not exist. Huts are generally inlong lines. Women and very young children dwelltogether, but the men lead a primitive club life oftheir own. They have no artificial appliances forcomfort. There is practically no reserve or privacyin their lives. Upon the first signs of pregnancy, women retireto a special part of the village, which is kept apartfrom the male section of the population and which iscalled Nzo Ngudi Nkento (the house of the bearingwomen) (Lower Congo). There they remain until. y
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