" The Fan call the Mpongwes, Bayok;
the Bakele, Ngon; the Shekyani, Besek; and the Gaboon River,
Aboka. The sub-tribes of cannibals, living near my line of march,
were named to me as follows:--1. The Lala (Oshebas?), whose chief
settlement, Sankwi, is up the Mbokwe River; 2. their neighbours,
the Esanvima; 3. the Sanikiya, a bush tribe; 4. the Sakula, near
Mayyan; 5. the Esoba, about Fakanjok; 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 decidedly 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.
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