PYGMIES AND FOREST NEGROES 



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308. AN MBUBA PLAYING ON A BOW-STBING, THE MOST PRIMITIVE OF JI.VX's INSTRUMENTS 



the south-west — the Bakonjo), who are quite indifferent as to whether their 

 covering, large or small, subserves purposes of decency. 



None of the forest people (except the Lendu) keep cattle. Goats, sheep, 

 fowls, and dogs are the only domestic animals. In their agriculture, besides 

 the banana they cultivate maize, sorghum, beans, collocasia,* pumpkins, 

 and tobacco. Many of these people are said to indulge in cannibalism, but 

 the practice, if it still exists, seems to be dying out. The agricultural forest 

 Negroes make pottery and work in iron. About their dwellings roughly and 

 sometimes grotescpnely carved wooden figures are met with, similar to those 

 alluded to in the description of the Lendu. These are even more abundant 

 among some of the Babira, and approximate in many respects to the West 



* A kind of arum. 



