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The Minor Tribes 
Chingufu of the Congo regions and the metal 
cones which are struck for signals upon the Tan¬ 
ganyika Lake. 
A great man is known by his making himself a 
marvellous “ guy,” wearing, for instance, a dingily 
laced cocked hat, stuck athwart-ships upon an 
unwashed night-cap, and a naval or military uni¬ 
form, fifty years old, “swearing” with the loin¬ 
cloth and the feet, which are always bare. 
The coiffure of the qnXoxoo-pov is peculiar 
and elaborate as that of the Gold Coast. These 
ladies seem to have chosen for their model the 
touraco or cockatoo,—they have never heard of 
“Kikeriki,”—and the effect is at first wondrously 
grotesque. Presently the eye learns to admire 
pretty Fanny’s ways; perhaps the pleureuse , the 
old English corkscrew ringlet, might strike the 
stranger as equally natural in a spaniel, and un¬ 
natural in a human. Still a style so peculiar 
requires a toilette in keeping; the “king” in uni¬ 
form is less ridiculous than the Gaboon lady’s 
chignon, contrasting with a tight-bodied and nar¬ 
row-skirted gown of pink calico. 
The national “ tire-valiant ^ is a galeated crest not 
unlike the cuirassier’s helmet, and the hair, trained 
from the sides into a high ridge running along 
the cranium, not unfrequently projects far beyond 
the forehead. Taste and caprice produce endless 
modifications. Sometimes the crest is double, 
