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some are coloured cafe au lait, as if born in a liigli and 
healthy region ; others are almost jet black, with the 
hair frightfully “ wispy,” like a mop. Generally the 
head is bullet-shaped, the face round, the features 
negroid, not negro, and the hands and feet large but 
not ill-shaped. Some again have the Hausa mark, 
thread-like perpen- 
dicular cuts from 
the zygomatic 
arches running 
parallel with the 
chin; in other cases 
the stigmata are 
broad beauty- 
slashes drawn trans- 
versely across the 
cheeks to the jaw- 
bone, and forming 
with the vertical 
axis an angle of 45°. 
All are exceedingly 
fond of meat, and, 
like the Kru-men, 
will devour it semi- 
putrified. The 
Congoese declare 
them to be “ papa- 
gentes” (cannibals), 
a term generally 
applied by the 
more advanced to 
the bushmen living 
beyond their fron- 
tier, and useful to aeter travellers and 
They themselves declare that they eat 
only after a battle — the sentimental form of anthro- 
pophagy. The slave -girl produced on this occasion 
was told to sing ; after receiving some beads, with- 
out which she would not open her lips, we were 
treated to a “ criard ” performance which reminded 
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runaways, 
the slain 
