M'Pongwe

Tribe of Negroes of w. Equatorial Africa. The man is ambitious to gain property in wives, etc., and social position. Then he becomes suspicious, and has his wives eat of each dish before he partakes. Every death is laid to the door of some poisoner, who is tested by being given poison to drink. if he vomits he is innocent. The father has supreme control of his family, but he is not brutal; serfs are treated the same as sons. Kings are chosen by acclamation. sus.