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The chief here, at this village of Embe, had a mest 
unusual crop of hair. These Ba-yansi are, indeed, remark- 
able for the abundance and glossiness of their “chevelure.”’ 
In the next village (the eastern bank of the river has 
become a continuous series of hamlets) I saw a woman 
with an even more magnificent head of hair. Her locks 
were combed out in a sort of “ aureola” round her well- 
shaped head. This race of the Ba-yansi, and, indeed, all 
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THE CHIEF OF EMBE, 
other highly developed types of Bantu peoples, remind me 
so much, with their high-bridged noses and bushy hair, of 
the Papuans, as one may judge of them from the descrip- 
tions and photographs of Wallace and other travellers. 
The banks of the Congo are here and for some distance 
further back strewn with great masses of rock, seemingly 
of igneous origin. Interspersed among these craggy 
blocks are patches of silvery sand, and the natives run 
along the banks, jumping. from rock to rock to try and 
keep up with the boat. Some of them, generally women 
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