and the Mpongwe. 
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Ologo. These are vulgar ghosts of the departed, 
the causes of “ possession,” disease and death ; 
they are propitiated by various rites, and every¬ 
where they are worshipped in private. Mr. Wilson 
opines that the “ Obambo are the spirits of the 
ancestors of the people, and Inlaga are the spirits 
of strangers and have come from a distance,” but 
this was probably an individual tenet. The 
Mumbo-Jumbo of the Mandengas; the Semo 
of the Susus ; the Tassau or “ Purrah-devil ” of 
the Mendis; the Egugun of the Egbas; the Egbo 
of the Duallas ; and the Mwetye and Ukukwe of 
the Bakele, is represented in Pongo-land by the 
Nda, which is an order of the young men. Ndd 
dwells in the woods and comes forth only by night 
bundled up in dry plantain leaves 1 and treading 
on tall stilts; he precedes free adult males who 
parade the streets with dance and song. The 
women and children fly at the approach of this 
devil on two sticks, and with reason : every 
peccadillo is punished with a merciless thrashing. 
The institution is intended to keep in order 
the weaker sex, the young and the “ chattels 
Nda has tried visiting white men and missionaries, 
but his visits have not been a success. 
1 Captain Boteler (v. ii. p. 374) gives a sketch of the “ Fetiche 
dance, Cape Lopez/" and an admirable description of Nda, who 
is mounted on stilts with a white mask, followed by negroes 
with chalked faces. 
