M'pongwe

They are often full of variety and beauty, particularly those of the M'pongwe and Igalwa, of which

Travels in West Africa Mary H. Kingsley 1881

Hair-dressing is quite an art among the Igalwa and M'pongwe women, and their hair is very beautiful; very crinkly, but fine.

Travels in West Africa Mary H. Kingsley 1881

Peak, this argument falls through; but he has also another legend, one moreover which is likewise to be found upon the mainland, which says he was driven from the district north of the Gaboon estuary by the coming of the M'pongwe to the coast, and as this legend is the more likely of the two I think we may accept it as true, or nearly so.

Travels in West Africa Mary H. Kingsley 1881

Their slaves work their large plantations, and bring up to them magnificent yams, ready prepared ogooma, sweet-potatoes, papaw, etc., not forgetting that delicacy Odeaka cheese; this is not an exclusive inspiration of theirs, for the M'pongwe and the Benga use it as well.

Travels in West Africa Mary H. Kingsley 1881

When we reach Arevooma, I find it is a very prettily situated town, on the left-hand bank of the river -- clean and well kept, and composed of houses built on the Igalwa and M'pongwe plan with walls of split bamboo and a palm thatch roof.

Travels in West Africa Mary H. Kingsley 1881

There is one other very important point in M'pongwe Fetish; and that is that the souls of men exist before birth as well as after death.

Travels in West Africa Mary H. Kingsley 1881

The M'pongwe know that his residence is in the sea, and some of them have seen him as an old white man, not flesh-colour white, but chalk white.

Travels in West Africa Mary H. Kingsley 1881

M'pongwe jurisprudence is founded on the same ideas as those on which West African jurisprudence at large is founded, but it is so elaborated that it would be desecration to sketch it.

Travels in West Africa Mary H. Kingsley 1881

I think I may say another thing about O Mbuiri, though I say it carefully, and that is, that among the M'pongwe and the tribe who are the parent tribe of the M'pongwe -- the now rapidly dying out

Travels in West Africa Mary H. Kingsley 1881

The great and important difference between the M'pongwe, {167}

Travels in West Africa Mary H. Kingsley 1881