The Basongo and Bangala are yet only partially subdued.

The farther west we go from this, the less independent we find the black population, until we reach the vicinity of Loanda, where the free natives are nearly identical in their feelings toward the government with the slaves.

But the governors of Angola wisely accept the limited allegiance and tribute rendered by the more distant tribes as better than none.
All the inhabitants of this region, as well as those of Londa, may be called true negroes, if the limitations formerly made be borne in mind.
The dark color, thick lips, heads elongated backward and upward and covered with wool, flat noses, with other negro peculiarities, are general; but, while these characteristics place them in the true negro family, the reader would imbibe a wrong idea if he supposed that all these features combined are often met with in one individual.

All have a certain thickness and prominence of lip, but many are met with in every village in whom thickness and projection are not more marked than in Europeans.

All are dark, but the color is shaded off in different individuals from deep black to light yellow.