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In other words, a cocktail mix of confidence, assertiveness, sensitivity to follower needs, and empathy provides for a leader that is effective, especially in change-oriented organizations (e.g. Groves 2005; Rosner; 1990; Hegeslen 1990; Merolla and Eberhardt 2010).

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Merolla tells us that the Congoese girls are locked up in pairs for two or three months out of the sight of man, bathing several times

Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003

Merolla tells us that the wizards circumcise children on the eighth day (like the Jews), not out of regard for the law, but with some wicked end and purpose of their own.

Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003

The other trees are the mfuma, cotton-tree or bombax (Pentandria truncospinoso, Smith), much valued as a canoe: Merolla uses Mafuma, a plural form, and speaks of its “wonderful fine wool.”

Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003

Merolla names this cymbal Longa, and describes it justly as two iron bells joined by an arched bar: I found it upon the Tanganyika Lake, and suffered severely from its monotonous horrors.

Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003

Merolla uses Zambiabungù, and in the vocabulary, Zabiambunco, for the “Spirit above”

Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003

Cariambemba is, properly, Kadi Mpemba or Ntangwa, the being that slays mankind: Merolla describes it as an

Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003

Father Merolla (1682), who visited it from “Angoij,” our “Cabinda,” speaks of it as a pretty large island, tributary to the Mani – Congo, extremely populous, well supplied with provisions, and outlaid by islets belonging to the

Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003

Merolla declares the women to be longer-lived than the men.

Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003

Merolla, indeed, enlarges on the constancy of women, whether white or black, when lawfully married to their mates; and praises them for living together in all manner of love and amity.

Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003