BANGALA CANNIBALS — VOYAGE UP THE KASAI AND SANKURU RIVERS — ARRIVAL AT LUSAMBO — DEFEAT BY COMMANDANT DHANIS OF TIPPU TIB's SLAVE-RAIDING AGENT, GONGO LUTETE — BASONGO CANNIBALS

On the 29th of April I embarked on the Stanley a thirty-ton stern-wheel paddle-steamer, towing two large whaleboats full of men.

Her crew consisted of sixty Bangala and three white officers. The Bangala, a very intelligent useful people, are a sort of Kru boy of the interior, and are largely employed on the steamers. They dress their hair fantastically, allowing one or more pigtails to grow a foot long, and stiffening the plaits with wax to give them the appearance of horns. They also cut and re-cut the skin from the root of the nose upwards to the hair, the cicatrix thus formed