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Title: Livingstone's and Stanley's travels in Africa also, the adventures of Mungo Parke, Clapperton, DuChaillu, Baker and other famous explorers, in the land of the palm and the gorilla
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Jones, Charles H
Subjects: Missions
Publisher: New York : Hurst
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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ing that he was much mistaken, and that we do not eat our slaves. The whole matter from his point of view, was absurd. i If we did not eat them, what did we want them for? was his incessant question; nor could his majesty be, by any skill of mine, inducted into the mysteries of our labor-system, and its rules of demand and supply. The Apingi are, for Africa, a very industrious people. The men really do some work, a thing unheard of among most of the native tribes. They use the fibrous parts of the leaf of a DU CHAILLUS EXPLORATIONS. 219 palm, which grows in great abundance here, to make a fine grass-cloth, for which they are noted among all the surrounding tribes, and which sometimes finds its way even to the coast. The palms from whose leaves the cloth is made, are planted about all their houses, and are property which only the owner may use; and the possession of fixed property of any kind, shows that the Apingi have made an important step in advance of the Bakalai, Mpongwe, and similar tribes.
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WEDDING PREPARATIONS AMONG THE APINGI. Both men and women file the teeth to a point, which gives their faces a frightfully savage appearance. In color they are yellowish-black, lighter than the Ashira. The women are much smaller than the men and hideously ugly; but they seem very fruitful, and large families are the rule. The men are almost fully clothed, but the women go nearly naked, and seem to be destitute of all traces of personal modesty—as the following incident related by Du Chaillu, will show: Re-mand) is head-wife or queen, a rather pretty young woman 220 DU CHAILLTP8 EXPLORATIONS. after the Apingi custom, came with her husband one day to see me. I gave her a piece of bright cotton cloth, which delighted her so much that she immediately began, to my great dismay, to disrobe herself, in order to put on my present. But, when she had reduced herself to a state of nature, something else of my goods attracted her attention, and she began to talk and look around her with the most complet

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