THE PHOPLE OF THE CONGO. 287 
trization is practised right along the course of the Congo 
up to the Stanley Falls. I give here an illustration of 
the torso of a Mu-ngala from the equator (the only 
specimen of his race I have ever seen) who had nearly 
the whole of his body thus ornamented. 
The Upper Congo people also spend a great deal of 
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AN EXAMPLE OF CICATRISATION, 
time and trouble in dressing their hair. Sometimes the 
head is shaved all but a small portion of the occiput, on 
which the hair is allowed to grow long and luxuriantly. 
On the fore part the chevelure is mixed with clay and 
erease, and is flattened down to the shape of the cranium; 
while behind is a fuzzy mane like an aureola round the 
head. But the infinitude of modes of hair-dressing is a 
