COI^TENTS. xxiii 



CHAPTEE XIX. 



JOURNEY TO THE COAST. 



Arrival at Mongon — Magouga recounts the Story of our Adventures to the 

 Villagers — Keach Xiembouai — Mistrust of the People — Restitution of 

 Stolen Property — Magouga consents to guide us to Mokenga — Reach 

 the last of the Ashango Villages — Passage into Ishogo-land, and out of 

 danger of Pursuit — Magouga's Diplomacy — Arrival at Mokenga — 

 Friendly Reception — Magouga delivers us safely into the hands of the 

 Villagers — My Men exaggerate the Deeds of Valour they had performed 

 — Arrival at Yengue — Project of descending the Ogoulou in a Canoe — 

 Lose our Way — Distant View of the Apono Prairie — Igoumbie — 

 Reach Mokaba — TheNgouyai — March to Nchiengain's — Cross the River 

 — Nchiengain's Village — Reception at Mayolo — Operation of the African 

 Law of Inheritance — March to Asliira-land — Alarm of the Ashira 

 People — Avoid Olenda — Sojourn at Angouka's — Cross the Ofoubou — 

 Quengueza's Encampment — Sorrows of the old King — Devastations of 

 the Plague at Goumbi — Quengueza wants to go to the White Man's 

 Country — Descend the River — Arrival at " Plateau " — Gratitude of the 

 Commi People — Departure for England Page 371 



CHAPTEE XX. 



PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY AND CLIMATE, 



Great Forest of Equatorial Africa — Scanty Population — Scarcity or absence 

 of large African Animals — Hilly Ranges — River Sj'stems — The Ogobai 

 — French exploring expeditions — Amount of rain — Seasons — Rainy 

 climate of Central Equatorial Africa — Temperature — Heat of the sun's 

 ravs — Coolness of the forest shades 406 



CHAPTEE XXI. 



ETHNOLOGY. 



Isolation of the tribes in the interior of Western Equatorial Africa — Scan- 

 tiness of the Po})ulation — Divisions of tribes and clans — Patriarchal 

 form of Government — Comparison of Customs between Western Equa- 

 torial tribes and Eastern — Laws of inheritance — Cannibalism — Migra- 

 tions always towards the West — Decrease of Population — Its Causes— 

 The African race doomed to extinction 424 



