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was poor, and the negroes were found eating a 
white-faced monkey—mere cannibalism amongst 
the coast tribes. The fauna and flora of the 
Ogobe are those of the Gaboon, and the variety 
of beautiful parrots is especially remarked. 
On January 9, 1874, M. de Compiegne passed 
from the Fernao Vaz through the Obango Canal 
into the Ogobe, which, bordered by Fetish rocks, 
flows through vast forests; his object was to 
study the manners and customs of the Kammas, a 
more important tribe than is generally supposed, 
far outnumbering the Urungus of the coast. Their 
country is large and contains many factories, the 
traders securing allies by marrying native women. 
The principal items of import are dry goods, guns, 
common spirits, and American tobacco; profits 
must be large, as what costs in France one franc 
eighty cents, here sells for ten francs’ worth of 
goods. The exports are almost entirely comprised 
in gum mastic and ivory. At the factory of Mr. 
Watkins the traveller secured certain figures which 
he calls “ idols”—they are by no means fitted for 
the drawing-room table. He also noticed the 
“ peace of the household,” a strip of manatus nerve, 
at times used by paterfamilias. 
Mr. R. B. N. Walker, who made sundry ex¬ 
cursions between 1866 and 1873, a ^ so wrote from. 
Elobe that he had left the French explorers, MM. 
de Compiegne and Marche, on the Okanda River 
