Handbook to the ethnographical collections . dout on a wholesale scale, thepractice relieving the chief ofobnoxious or too powerful sub-ordinates. The mythology andfolklore of this region is veryrich, especially amongst Hotten-tots and Bushmen. The area next under con-sideration is that to the northand east of the regions described f,,;. J89.—Hide .shLM. BaSuto, in the last two sections ; it is S. Africa, bounded on the north by the river Congo and, to the east of the upper waters of that river,by the equator. This enormous tract comprises so great anumber of tribes that only the more importan
Handbook to the ethnographical collections . dout on a wholesale scale, thepractice relieving the chief ofobnoxious or too powerful sub-ordinates. The mythology andfolklore of this region is veryrich, especially amongst Hotten-tots and Bushmen. The area next under con-sideration is that to the northand east of the regions described f,,;. J89.—Hide .shLM. BaSuto, in the last two sections ; it is S. Africa, bounded on the north by the river Congo and, to the east of the upper waters of that river,by the equator. This enormous tract comprises so great anumber of tribes that only the more important can be men-tioned here. On the high jdateau forming the watershed of theZambesi and Kasai are found the Lobale and Luchaze, whoseem to show affinities with the tribes of BaEotseland : to thenorth of them are the BaLunda, amongst whom a mighty empireflourished in the eighteenth and latter part of tlio nineteenthcenturies, extending from the Kwango to beyond the word must be said about the rise of this emijire, since it explains. 216 AFT.^ tlie position of many of the neighbouring tribes at the presentclay. Al)out three centuries jigo the BaLunda, who lived mainlyby agriculture, recognized as ruler an immigrant hunter from theBaLuba to the north-east: he gradually extended his power andlaid the foundations of the Lunda empire. He had with hima number of BaLuba followers, who, however, were far out-numbered by the subject BaLunda. Certain irreconcilableLunda chiefs from time to time seceded and travelled west,followed by a few adherents: better armed than the aboriginesthey encountered, they often imposed themselves as rulers, and,becoming merged in their subjects, constituted a new tribe. In
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