Old Mobali man. The hair is allowed to grow 
long in age; the young men wear it shaven or 
short 
the trespassing government officials to- 
gether. Even their dead were often 
sold to neighbors to satisfy the hunger 
Incidentally — this 
for meat. horrible 
Azande woman. The headdress is made of 
human hair, woven upon a framework of rattan 
and decorated with cowrie shells 
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practice produced some fairly good 
results in eugenics, as in many tribes 
weakened people or crippled children 
helped to nourish their more sturdy 
brothers. 
From the very start the government 
stopped internecine war and cannibal- 
ism; invited professional reformers; 
made traveling through these regions 
practically safe; established a system of 
river navigation; drove out slave-traders 
and Mahdists; introduced an elaborate 
judiciary system, and built in spite of 
apparently insurmountable difficulties, 
a two-hundred-and-forty-mile railroad 
near the coast belt, which really meant 
the opening of the Congo to the world at 
large. 
For over two years we lived in a dis- 
trict where, at that time, probably 
greater quantities of rubber were being 
collected by the natives than in any other 
region of the Congo. We often received 
specimens for our zodlogical collections 
from these rubber caravans which entered 
the forest for a week or a fortnight. In 
fact they considered us rather as friends 
and thus we had ample opportunity of 
seeing them at work. Only a few re- 
marks are necessary to throw light on the 
general conditions as we observed them. 
Long ago, when cannibalism was still 
flourishing, these negroes always left be- 
tween the localities of the principal tribes 
large, uninhabited belts in the forest, so 
that the chance of continued or immedi- 
ate invasion by their ever-hungry neigh- 
bors might be slightly reduced. This 
belt was naturally also the hunting 
ground, as in such a reservation game 
was fairly abundant, and not many 
natives would dare to venture alone into 
this wilderness. At certain periods how- 
ever, two or three times a year, the great 
chiefs would collect their natives and 
would enter this uninhabited forest-belt, 
either to gather household necessities 
