. Land and peoples of the Kasai; being a narrative of a two years' journey among the cannibals of the equatorial forest and other savage tribes of the south-western Congo . mies than to risking loss to themselvesin a pitched battle. Obviously the look-out on the towerwould be of little use in the case of a night attack, but,like many negroes, the Bankutu do not like to move aboutat night, and, consequently, their raids on the Batetela arefar less serious than they might be. At Twipolo weentered the first Bankutu village we had seen. Thesevillages lie in the heart of the forest, so closely surr
. Land and peoples of the Kasai; being a narrative of a two years' journey among the cannibals of the equatorial forest and other savage tribes of the south-western Congo . mies than to risking loss to themselvesin a pitched battle. Obviously the look-out on the towerwould be of little use in the case of a night attack, but,like many negroes, the Bankutu do not like to move aboutat night, and, consequently, their raids on the Batetela arefar less serious than they might be. At Twipolo weentered the first Bankutu village we had seen. Thesevillages lie in the heart of the forest, so closely surroundedby the woods that the one street, bordered on each side byhuts, of which they consist, is rather a mere widening ofthe track than a clearing in the forest. One comes uponthe villages quite suddenly, and unless one has heard thecrowing of a cock or the whistling of the emerald cuckoo(a bird which is seldom to be found unless there be aclearing of some sort close at hand), one steps out of theforest into the village before one has realised that there isa human habitation within miles. The villages themselvesthough small and, usually on the approach of strangers,. A BANKU I 0 CANNIBAL.
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