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also iiiigrated to the banks of tlie Ngoujai, and have 

 scattered themselves further east than the Oviffui 

 river. 



Old Remandji, the king of the Apingi, whom I 

 visited in my first journey, remembered well the time 

 when he could go with the Apingi to the Anenga 

 tribe. Since then the road has been stopped, the 

 Bakalai having made their appearance on the way 

 there. 



The Shekiani have come and settled themselves V 

 on the sea-shore from inland, between the Mpongwe 1 

 and Cape Lopez people. Three Ishogo villages haveii 

 settled among the Apono, about two years before| 

 my arrival ; Ishogo and Ashango live in one village, 

 and Ashango and Njavi do the same in another, the I 

 Njavi having migrated towards the west. All these ■'■ 

 are instances of what I advance, namely, that the 

 tribes are always moving, and that the movement is 

 towards the west. 



There are tribes that have remained a long time at 

 the same place, such as the Ashira Ngozai, on account 

 of the beautiful country in which they live : but lately 

 many have expressed the desire to come and settle on 

 the banks of the Ovenga, and would do so if it were 

 not for the warlike Bakalai, who, since the plague, 

 have dwindled down, and will disappear soon unless 

 strengthened by migration from the Bakalai of the 

 north, who may be driven southward by the can- 

 nibals. 



The reader will be able at once to see, by the 

 description I have just given, how such political dis- 

 integration has taken place, and how people speaking 



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