ILLUSTRATIONS
Reading edition
COLOURED PLATES
The Old Bilumbu relating the Legends of his Tribe Frontispiece
Wissmann Pool To face page 20
Sounding the Signalling Gong ” 68
Misumba ” 91
Embroidering the Raphia Cloth ” 93
The Equatorial Forest ” 150
Bushongo Elders Dancing ” 201
An Incident at Pana ” 246
HALF-TONES
The Congo at Matadi ” 5
A Street in Matadi ” 5
The Congo Railway ” 10
A Stop at a Wayside Station ” 10
Bateke Village, Kinshasa ” 14
Fishermen on the Congo ” 14
Open Country beside the Kasai ” 29
Mangay ” 29
The Leader of the Basonge Orchestra ” 36
The Sankuru near Batempa ” 36
A Batetela Drummer ” 52
Batetela Wall Pictures ” 52
An Old-fashioned Batetela Hut ” 62
Jadi and some of his Wives ” 62
Batwa Dwarfs ” 84
A Street in Misumba ” 84
The Hunting Fetish, Misumba ” 101
A Bushongo of Misumba ” 101
The Bilumbu taking Pills under a Blanket ” 105
The Bilumbu dismissing an Inquisitive Child ” 105
A Ceremonial Dance by an Elder ” 111
A Dance at Misumba ” 111
A Basongo-Meno Warrior ” 118
Our Camp at Gandu ” 118
A Bankutu Cannibal ” 132
A Bankutu Village ” 132
Bankutu Bark Huts ” 142
A Village in the Equatorial Forest ” 142
Our Loads in a Forest Village ” 162
The Dogs with which the Olemba buy their Wives ” 162
A Vungi Mother ” 173
An Akela Beauty ” 173
A Primitive Signalling Gong ” 176
A Grave-hut in the Equatorial Forest ” 176
An Akela cutting up his Food ” 181
Akela Warriors ” 181
A Belle of the Mushenge ” 194
A Bushongo Elder ” 194
The Nyimi in his Ghost-dance ” 204
An Elder displaying a Statue ” 204
The Statue of Shamba Bolongongo (now in the British Museum) ” 209
Children at the Mushenge imitating a Bearded White Man ” 222
The Nyimi’s Sons playing with our Firearms ” 222
Mikope and Mingi Bengela ” 226
A Bushongo Village near the Mushenge ” 226
A Child from the Mission at Pana ” 244
Bos Caffer Simpsoni: a cow ” 244
Bos Caffer Simpsoni: our best bull ” 248
Cutting up a Buffalo at Pana ” 250
A Hippopotamus from the Kwilu ” 250
A Bambala Girl playing a Nose Flute ” 255
A Bambala Boy playing an Ordinary Flute ” 255
The Friction Drum ” 257
Bambala Gambling ” 257
A Babunda Hut ” 262
Babunda Porters entering Athenes ” 262
The Kwilu Valley at Bondo ” 269
A View from the Factory of Athenes ” 269
Crossing the Lubue ” 276
A Bapende Dance at Dumba ” 276
Kangala ” 283
Bapende Boys wearing Masks ” 283
A Bakongo Village, photographed from the top of its Stockade ” 290
A View of the Unknown Country from Kangala ” 290
Carving a Wooden Cup at Insashi ” 295
The Chief of Insashi calling for Canoes ” 295
Gandu, Son of the Chief of Kanenenke ” 308
Removing a Lady’s Eyelashes ” 308
Bakongo of Kenge looking at our Doll ” 321
The Clockwork Elephant ” 321
A Badjok Camp at Makasu ” 330
Bashilele Hunters ” 330
Our Porters from the Kwilu ” 338
Interior of a Bashilele Village ” 338