The universal geography : earth and its inhabitants

18 SOUTH AND EAST AFEICA.by tho Cabindas, and especially the slave trade carried on either by the monksthemselves or by the Portuguese and foreign dealers. The kingdom is kepttogether only by the mystic power of tradition, like the " holj^ Roman Empire "during the Middle Ages.Although dwelling on the banks of the Congo, in the immediate vicinity ofFie;.5.—Mu-SoEONOO "Woman.the factories visited by the whites, the native communities lying west of San-Salvador have onlj' to a very small extent been brought under Europeaninfluences. The Mu-Sorongos, Mu-Shicongos, Bambas and others, have remainedpure fetishists unaffected by any ceremonies borrowed from the Eoraan Catholic