Among the Primitive Bakongo

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Excerpt from Among the Primitive Bakongo: A Record of Thirty Years' Close Intercourse With the Bakongo and Other Tribes of Equatorial Africa, With a Description of Their Habits, Customs Religious Beliefs The kindly reception given to a former work, Among Congo Cannibals, has encouraged the author to put in permanent form this record of the customs, habits, organisations, court life and its functionaries, which he has carefully noted during the thirty years that he has been more or less closely in touch with the peoples of the Lower Congo. The former work deals with a Riverine Tribe on the Upper Congo River, but this book aims at giving a reflection of the Lower Congo native's mind, a series of word photographs of his manner of life, his views regarding the various spirits by which he is surrounded and his method of controlling them, and also reminiscences of the old King, who for thirty-two years reigned nominally over an extent of territory larger than Wales, but in reality only over a stretch of country the size of a small English county. The language spoken, Kisi-Kongo, at the capital, San Salvador, is known, with slight dialectical differences, throughout the whole of the nominal kingdom of Kongo, and in some parts even beyond its boundaries, and the people are designated Bakongo. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.