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the south-west — the Bakonjo), who are quite indifterent 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 potteri/ and tcork in iron. About their dwellings roughly and 

 sometimes grotesquely 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 Eabira, and ap}»roximate in many respects to the ^^ est 



* A kind of arum. 



