128 The National Geographic Magazine 



ing by storm 44 towns. Against the 

 multitudes of negroes they had only an 

 escort of 20 Senegalese soldiers. 



All the people inhabiting this part of 

 the tropical forest are cannibals, but 

 they are nevertheless much more civ- 

 ilized than their neighbors ; they weave 

 cloth ; their villages are quite substan- 

 tial ; their roads are well planned, and 

 they cultivate many vegetables. They 

 hunt men in the Sudan and capture all 

 they can ; their captives are then butch- 

 ered and eaten. But they do not lack 

 meat for they have cattle, goats, and 

 sheep. When they kill a man, each, ac- 

 cording to his rank, receives a special 

 portion ; one has a right to the shoulder, 

 another to the thigh, a third to arm 

 and liver. MM. Hostains and d'Ollone 

 were the first Europeans who had pene- 

 trated to the country of these cannibals ; 

 the region will soon be occupied by 

 military French posts, who will try to 



put an end to these horrible practices. 

 To help the Hostains-d'Ollone party 

 Captain Woelffel, with a company of 

 100 Senegal soldiers, started from north- 

 ern Sudan to meet them, but the hos- 

 tility of the natives prevented a junction 

 of the two parties. Captain Woelffel 

 was compelled to fight for every mile of 

 advance, and soon had lost two-thirds 

 of his men in killed and wounded. 



The maps made b} _ the two expedi- 

 tions have greatly changed our former 

 idea of the h3'drographic basins of this- 

 part of Africa ; these maps show the 

 existence of high mountain ranges rising 

 to 9,000 feet between the Sassandra, the 

 Cavally, and the Niger. 



From all the French colonies on the 

 west coast of Africa many expeditions, 

 often directed by the officers of the colo- 

 nial army, have set out to explore 

 the hinterland. Each has brought back 

 a survey of a river or a district. Thus 



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