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Lala (Oshebas ?), whose chief settlement, Sankwf, 
is up the Mbokwe River ; 2. their neighbours, the 
Esanvima ; 3. the Sanikiya, a bush tribe ; 4. the 
Sakula, near Mayyas; 5. the Esoba, about Fakan- 
jok; 6. the Esonzel of the Ute, or Auta village; 
7. the Okola, whose chief settlement is Esamasi; 
and 8. the Ashemvon, with Asya for a capital. 
From M. du Chaillu’s illustrations (pp. 74, 77) 
I fully expected to see a large-limbed, black¬ 
skinned, and ferocious-looking race, with huge 
mustachios and plaited beards. A finely made, 
light-coloured people, of regular features and de¬ 
cidedly mild aspect, met my sight. 
The complexion is, as a rule, chocolate, the 
distinctive colour of the African mountaineer and 
of the inner tribes ; there are dark men, as there 
would be in England, but the very black are of 
servile origin. Few had any signs of skin-disease; 
I saw only one hand spotted with white, like the 
incipient Morphetico (leper) of the Brazil. Many, 
if bleached, might pass for Europeans, so “ Cau¬ 
casian ” are their features; few are negro in type 
as the Mpongwe, and none are purely “ nigger ” 
like the blacks of maritime Guinea and the lower 
Congoese. And they bear the aspect of a people 
fresh from the bush, the backwoods; their teeth 
are pointed, and there is generally a look of gro¬ 
tesqueness and surprise. When I drank tea, they 
asked what was the good of putting sugar in 
