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CHAPTER XV. 



FROM ISHOGO TO ASHANGO-LAND. 



The Ishogos — Their Modes of dressing the Hair — Ishogo Villages — 

 Picturesque Scenery — Granitic Boulders — Grooved Eocks — Leave 

 Mokenga — Cross the Dongon — Continued Ascent — Mount Migoma 



— The River Odigauga — Boundaries of Ishogo and Ashango-lands — 

 Arrival at Magonga — Plateau of Madombo — Mutiny of Ishogo Porters 



— An unfriendly Village — Elevated Country — Arrival and friendly 

 Reception at Niemhouai — The King's Wives — Prejudices of the 

 Commi Men — Hear of a large River towards the East — The Ashangui 

 Tribe — The Obongos. 



The Ishogos are a fine tribe of negroes ; they are 

 strongly and well built, with well-developed limbs 

 and broad shoulders. I consider them superior to 

 the Ashiras in physique, and I remarked that they 

 generally had finer heads, broader in the part where 

 phrenologists place the organs of ideality. With 

 some of them their general appearance reminded me 

 of the Fans. The women have good figures ; they 

 tattoo themselves in various parts of the body — on 

 the shoulders, arms, breast, back, and abdomen — 

 and some of them have raised pea-like marks similar 

 to those of the Apono women, between the eye-brows 

 and on the cheeks. Both men and women adopt the 

 custom of pulling out the two middle incisors of the 

 upper jaw, but this mode of adding to their personal 

 attraction is not so general as among the Aponos ; 



