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<of hard labour, by the learned Palisot de Beauvois, 
author of the “ Flore d’Oware ? ” The “ Reviewer ” of 
Douville (p. 177) as sensibly declares that cannibalism 
“ has hitherto continually retired before the investigation 
of sober-minded, enlightened men, - ' when, after a 
century or two of intercourse with white traders, it 
still flourishes on the Bonny and New Calabar Rivers. 
We are glad to be rid of the Jagas, a subject which 
has a small literature of its own ; the savage race 
appeared everywhere like a “ deus ex macliina,” and it 
became to Intertropical Africa what the “ Lost Tribes ” 
were, and even now are in some cases, to Asia and not 
rarely to Europe. Even the sensible Mr. Wilson 
(“West Africa,” p. 238) has “no doubt of the Jagas 
being the same people with the more modernly dis- 
covered Pangwes ” (Fa??s) ; and this is duly copied by 
M. du Chaillu (chap. viii.). M. Valdez (ii. 150) more 
sensibly records that the first Jaga established in 
Portuguese territory was called Colaxingo (Kolashingo), 
and that his descendants were named “ Jagas,” like the 
Egyptian Pharaohs, the Roman Caesars, the Austrian 
Kaisers, and the Russian Czars : he also reminds us 
(p. 150) that the chief of the Bangalas inhabiting 
Cassange ( = Kasanjf) was the Jaga or ruler par 
excellence. 
Early on the morning of September 11,1 was aroused 
by a “ bob ” in the open before us. We started up, 
fearing that some death by accident had taken place : 
the occasion proved, on the contrary, to be one of 
ushering into life. The women were assembled in a 
ring round the mother, and each howled with all the 
might of her lungs, either to keep off some evil spirit 
or to drown the sufferer’s cries. In some parts of 
Africa, the Gold Coast for instance, it is considered 
infamous for a woman thus to betray her pain, but 
here we are amongst a softer race. 
