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TEAYELS IN CENTEAL AFEICA. 
The village, or rather the group of hamlets amounting to five in 
number, called Neangara, is hut an insignificant capital for a large 
district, extending southwards to Mundo and eastwards to the river 
Ayi. Although of the Moro tribe originally, Neangara^s father 
quarrelled with them, and beating the mother-tribe repeatedly, he 
established himself as chief of the district, to which he gave the 
name of Morokodo Madi: the latter name was appended in honour 
of another independent Moro tribe of that name, located to the 
north-east of this, that assisted Morokodo to gain his independence. 
The principal arms of the Moro, of whatever denomination, are the 
bow and arrow, upon wdiich they principally rely, but as an accessory 
they carry a single small lance or javelin. Mdth the former they are 
particularly adroit, killing birds on the wing and antelopes whilst 
running. The bow of an adult is not more than four feet six 
inches to five feet in length, of hard wood; and, although well 
tapered, is not so powerful or pliable as lance-wood ; sixty yards is 
about the outside effective range. The arrows, made of reeds, are 
bare and light, and are tipped with well-made barbed iron points 
three inches long. In some cases rounded ebony points are 
used, and these in several instances were coated with a vege- 
table poison. The bow-strings are particularly strong, and are of 
twisted gut, made of cows^ sinews. Both sexes are ornamented 
with several strings of goats’ teeth around the neck, and the wrists 
and ankles with numerous brightly polished iron rings. Copper 
bracelets, obtained from the traders, are also conspicuous. The 
men wear as many as twelve bracelets, three-fourths of an inch 
in thickness, on the right arm; and those addicted to elephant 
hunting wear near the hand an additional bracelet, made of a bar 
of iron one and a half inches square; this, they maintain, gives 
greater penetration to the spear when it is thrown. The waists 
