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posed to be the true aboriginal inhabitants, without admixture 
with Chinese. Little is known of them, as they hold aloof from 
other tribes. They inhabit the mountain ranges to the northwest 
of the Tipuns, and are a fierce and intractable race, addicted to 
cannibalism. There is also said to be a tribe of red-haired savages 
living among the central mountains. The Pepo-huans seem to 
and Chinese. The inhabitants of Formosa are intelligent, and 
the Chinese have a proverb to the effect that when the savages 
take to wearing trousers there is no room for a Chinaman. 
BornEo.—Mr. Pryer states that the natives of North Borneo 
are of mixed aboriginal and Chinese ancestry. On the east coast 
there is little of the native type left. This race, the Dusuns, is 
settling down under the North Borneo Company, and is thriving 
and increasing. In the long-course of Chinese trade with the 
island, a slow and steady infiltration of Chinese blood took 
place. 
Africa. THE Last GERMAN Conco Expepition,—tThe last Ger- 
man Congo Expedition, 1884-86, made extensive land journeys. 
Dr. Buttner proceeded from San Salvador, the residence of the 
king of the Ba-Congo, to the Quango, passing through the 
country of the Sombo into that of the Mayakke. The Sombo 
are great ivory-traders. At the capital of the Muene Putu Ka- 
songa (Kiamoo), which has about one thousand houses in its 
stockade, our traveller was compelled to turn northwards. Pass- 
ing the Kingunshi rapids of the Kuango, he crossed the country 
of the Warumba. At Ngatuka a Queen Geu (Goy) is in power, 
and her brother rules over the Bansinik at a town which has an 
audience-hall that will hold one thousand people. Thence he 
proceeded to the Congo, which he reached above Leopoldville. 
h 
Dr. Wolff’s Lomanie to be this river.) Farther eastward pacific 
relations were established with King Gakoko, ruler of the Basengo 
and of their smaller neighbors, the Bikalli. With the Bikalli, and 
with the Bavumbo beyond them, several contests occurred, re- 
sulting in the former case in the loss of two men killed and seven 
wounded, and in the latter in the wounding of Lieutenant Kund 
