989 4 JOURNEY UP THE RIVER CONGO. 
the district of Ki-ntamo, on the western shores of Stanley 
Pool. 
The Ba-teke, Wa-buma, and Ba-yansi, all tribes of the 
Upper river,* though they differ each from the other in 
certain characteristics, and markedly in tongue, yet offer 
so many mutual points of resemblance and of dissimilarity 
to the Ba-kongo people below Stanley Pool that they may — 
well be described together in their general features and — 
separated in this description from the races of the Lower 
river. : 
These upper Congo people betray little or no inter- 
A M-BUMA. A MU-YANSI. 
mixture of “negro” blood. They are pure “ Bantu,” and 
consequently greatly resemble other unmixed races of the 
same stock, such as the Ova-mbo, the Ba-lunda, and the 
people of Tanganyika and Nyasa. They differ from the 
more negroid Ba-kongo in having skins of a chocolate 
brown, and, above all, in their abundant growth of hair. 
The beard, whiskers, and moustache are always present, 
but are generally, in common with the hair of the eye- 
brows and the eyelashes, plucked out, from a prejudice 
* By Upper and Lower river I always mean the Congo above and 
below Stanley Pool. 
