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Those who come from Buali, the capital of the Loango district, in 

 about latitude 4° 30' S., have marks like the preceding, on the breast, 

 and others on the arms. 



Towards the south, tattooing is less common, and among the Goy 

 or Angoya people (the Kambindas proper), few but women are so 

 ornamented. Their marks are characterized in the three figures 

 appended. 



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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. 



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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 

 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 



