Mpongwe

Marriage amongst the Mpongwe is a purely civil contract, as in

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

Marriage amongst the Mpongwe is a purely civil contract, as in

Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 1 Richard Francis Burton 1855

"The Sooahelee, or Swahere language, spoken by the aboriginal inhabitants of Zanzibar, is very nearly allied to the Mpongwe, which is spoken on the western coast in very nearly the same parallel of latitude.

History of the Negro Race in America From 1619 to 1880. Vol 1 Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens George W. Williams 1870

-- The Gorilla (after Wolff).) "The tribe from which our knowledge of the animal is derived, and whose territory forms its habitat, is the 'Mpongwe', occupying both banks of the River Gaboon, from its mouth to some fifty or sixty miles upward ....

Lectures and Essays Thomas Henry Huxley 1860

-- The Gorilla (after Wolff).] "The tribe from which our knowledge of the animal is derived, and whose territory forms its habitat, is the 'Mpongwe', occupying both banks of the River Gaboon, from its mouth to some fifty or sixty miles upward ....

Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature Thomas Henry Huxley 1860

Mpongwe appellation for its new congener is ‘Enge-ena’, prolonging the sound of the first vowel, and slightly sounding the second.

Essays 2007

Formerly he inhabited the mountainous ridge where Bushmen alone inhabited, but now he boldly approaches the Mpongwe plantations.

Essays 2007

‘Mpongwe’, occupying both banks of the River Gaboon, from its mouth to some fifty or sixty miles upward ....

Essays 2007

Metamorphosis is a common art amongst Mpongwe magicians: this vulgar materialism, of which Ovid sang, must not be confounded with the poetical Hindu metempsychosis or transmigration of souls which explains empirically certain physiological mysteries.

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

This “wicker-work rattle to drive the devil out” (M. du Chaillu, chap, xxvi.) is called by the Mpongwe

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