Life at Banza Nokki. 
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tinguishes them from other serviles. Apparently 
under this name there are several tribes inhabiting 
lands of various elevations; some are coloured 
mfe au lait, as if born in a high and healthy 
region ; others are almost jet black with the hair 
frightfully “ wispy,” like a mop. Generally the 
head is bullet-shaped, the face round, the features 
negroid, not negro, and the hands and feet large 
but not ill-shaped. Some again have the Hausa 
mark, thread-like perpendicular cuts from the zy¬ 
gomatic arches running parallel with the chin ; in 
other cases the stigmata are broad beauty-slashes 
drawn transversely across the cheeks to the jaw¬ 
bone, and forming with the vertical axis an angle 
of 45 0 . All are exceedingly fond of meat, and, 
like the Kru-men, will devour it semi-putrified. 
The Congoese declare them to be “ papagentes ” 
(cannibals), a term generally applied by the more 
advanced to the bushmen living beyond their fron¬ 
tier, and useful to deter travellers and runaways. 
They themselves declare that they eat the slain 
only after a battle—the sentimental form of anthro¬ 
pophagy. The slave-girl produced on this occasion 
was told to sing ; after receiving some beads, with¬ 
out which she would not open her lips, we were 
treated to a “ criard ” performance which reminded 
me of the “ heavenly muse ” in the Lake Regions 
of Central Africa. 
The neighbours of the Mundongos are the 
