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discovered, he had nearly eaten the whole skin in a state 
scarcely warm, ‘There do not appear, however, to be the 
slightest grounds for supposing that they ever eat human 
flesh, not even that of their enemies, but that all the accu- 
sations of this nature are totally false. 
None of the banzas or villages seen by the party were of 
great extent; the largest probably not exceeding one hun- 
dred huts. Embomma, Cooloo, and Inga, are each the 
residence of a Chenon; the first was supposed to consist of 
about sixty huts, exclusive of tie Chenoo’s inclosure, and 
about five hundred inhabitants; the second, one hundred 
huts, and from five to six hundred inhabitants; and the 
third, being the last in the line of the river within the 
kingdom of Congo, of seventy huts, and three hundred in- 
habitants. The party stationed at this banza understood, 
that the Chenoo could command about two hundred fight- 
ing men, one hundred of whom he can arm with musquets ; 
and with this force he conceives himself to be the dread 
and terror of his enemies. ‘These banzas are usually placed 
amidst groves of palms and adansonias. 
The huts in general consist of six pieces, closely woven 
or matted together, from a reedy grass, or the fibres of 
sume plant; the two sides exactly corresponding, the two 
ends the same, excepting that in one is the door way, an 
opening just large enough to creep in at, and the two slop- 
ing sides of the roof also correspond. ‘The sides and ends 
are made fast to upright posts stuck in the ground; and 
the two pieces of the roof are bound to the sides, and also 
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