Africa and its inhabitants . occupied by local chiefs, have p,, larger than that of Kimhundu. North of the Ba-Kuba territory the Kassai and the Lua-Xgo traverse the land. 492 WEST AIRICA. of tlie Pendes, Ba-Kongos, and other Bantu peoples, of whom little is knownbeyond their tribal names. Beyond the Sankiiru dwell the Ba-Songo Mino, or Songas of the Teeth, so named because they file to a point all the much dreaded as cannibals they deny the charge, which was certainlyunconfirmed b)- anything seen by Wolf when he visited them in 1886. Lowerdown, about the Sankuru-Kass
Africa and its inhabitants . occupied by local chiefs, have p,, larger than that of Kimhundu. North of the Ba-Kuba territory the Kassai and the Lua-Xgo traverse the land. 492 WEST AIRICA. of tlie Pendes, Ba-Kongos, and other Bantu peoples, of whom little is knownbeyond their tribal names. Beyond the Sankiiru dwell the Ba-Songo Mino, or Songas of the Teeth, so named because they file to a point all the much dreaded as cannibals they deny the charge, which was certainlyunconfirmed b)- anything seen by Wolf when he visited them in 1886. Lowerdown, about the Sankuru-Kassai confluence, live the unfriendly Ba-Kutu people,and still farther north, between the Kassai and the Lu-Kenye (Ikatta), follow theBa-Senge, occupying straggling villages miles in extent and often containingseveral thousand inhabitants. The Ba-Senge, who are not to be confoundedwith the Ba-Songe and Ba-Sange nations, are noted for their relatively long legs Fig. —CONFLTJENOB OF THE CaMBO AND 1 : 200, EasboP Greenw c^t 17 ?b \/°x > Miles. and short trunk, while many have perfectly European features of the intellectualtype. Ga-kolio, their capital, so named from the local chief, is a very large placebuilt, like all the other towns, in a clearing of the primeval forest. The Ewango Basin. Although belonging to the Kassai system, the Kwango traverses a regionwhich has had a very different historic evolution from that of Lunda Land. It isthe true Zaire, which was known to the Portuguese since the sixteenth century, andwhose name is still attributed to the Lower Congo. Many parts of its valley have THE 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, sav
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