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who also affects the use of ashes, but neglects that 
of the palm-thatch. It is certainly enough to 
startle a man of impressible nerves—one, for in¬ 
stance, who cannot enter a room without a side- 
long glance at an unexpected coffin—to see these 
hideous beings starting with their savage cry from 
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the depths of an African forest. Evidently, also, 
such is the intention of the costume. 
Contrasting the Congoese with the Goanese, we 
obtain a measure of difference between the African 
and the Asiatic. Both were Portuguese colonies 
founded about the same time, and under very 
similar circumstances ; both were catechized and 
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