Africa and its inhabitants . Mendis (Mendes), who, however, reject this name as implj-ing the ideaof slavery, and call themselves Kossa (Kossu), that is, according to WinwoodRead, Wild Boars. The Mendis, who speak a distinct language, are a warlikepeople, by whom, either alone or in alliance with the English, the Timni haveoften been defeated. SIEEEA-LEONE. 205 North-east of the Timui the cone-shaped huts of the Limbas occupy the crestsof all the hills about the middle course of the Little Scarcie. The Limbas are apowerful tribe, who often close the trade route through their territory. Theysho
Africa and its inhabitants . Mendis (Mendes), who, however, reject this name as implj-ing the ideaof slavery, and call themselves Kossa (Kossu), that is, according to WinwoodRead, Wild Boars. The Mendis, who speak a distinct language, are a warlikepeople, by whom, either alone or in alliance with the English, the Timni haveoften been defeated. SIEEEA-LEONE. 205 North-east of the Timui the cone-shaped huts of the Limbas occupy the crestsof all the hills about the middle course of the Little Scarcie. The Limbas are apowerful tribe, who often close the trade route through their territory. Theyshow great respect for their dead, burying them in an upright position, as ifabout to resume the journey through life in the after-woild. The communications between Sierra-Leone and the Upper Niger are alsooccasionally endangered by the Saffrokos and Konos, who dwell more to the southin the hilly regions, about the sources of the coast streams. Still more warlike Fig. 86.—I>-HABITiVTS OF SfKBRA-LeONE. Scale 1 : , West oT Greenwich Leptljs. 0 to S2 feet. 32 to 60Fett. Rotoieo Feet. IfiO Feet imaupwards. CO Miles. are the Gallinas of the Gallina and Manna rivers on the Liberian frontier, whotill recently barred all European access to the interior. Even since the suppressionof the slave-trade they have continued theii- hereditary feuds with theii- Kossuneighbours on the north and the Vci people on the south-east, and have evenwaged war against the American Negroes of Liberia. In 1885 the queen ofone of their most powerful tribes became the ally of the English, who through herinterposition are now the supreme masters of the whole country. These Gallinaaare in some respects well qualified to cxdtivatc the arts of peace as well ns of war. 206 WEST AFEICA. They arc noted cspcciallj- for their cesthetic taste, and amongst them are many-skilful goldsmiths and woodcarvers endowed with considerable original all the coast peoples they have been most influenced by Isla
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