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ornamented, 
appended. 
Their marks are characterized in the three figures 
tf ft 
The Angoyans, however, file their teeth after a peculiar fashion, 
each tooth being cut down or filed in the centre, so that only the sides 
are left standing ; the contiguous sides of the teeth form a single saw- 
like tooth. 
The inhabitants of the town of Embomma, on the north bank of 
the river Congo, are distinguished by the teeth being filed so that 
each tooth forms a point. 
The Mundjola, a savage tribe, live in the interior, beyond the 
Loango district, with whose inhabitants they are constantly engaged 
in wars, made expressly to procure slaves. They are esteemed the 
MUNDJOLA. 
least valuable of all the blacks imported into Brazil, being stupid, 
ferocious, and intractable. In Africa they are stigmatized as man- 
eaters by the other negroes. The Mundjola have the usual negro 
features, with somewhat of a Tartar expression. Their cheeks are 
furrowed longitudinally by numerous parallel lines. 
Of the exact geographical position of the Mundjola, no definite 
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