Note 180 — Chapter VII
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The same is the custom amongst the Dembos of the old Congo empire. A man who refused to quit the path when a chief’s wife approached, or who stood talking with her, would be sold with his family into slavery: on the other hand, the woman, under pain of her lord’s displeasure, yielded the way to a white man or a black-white—one authorised to wear shoes and other articles of European toilette.