"If we make a village here it is good. If we make it in another place it is just as good."
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Congo Free StateDemocratic Republic of the CongoPygmy peoplesAfrican PygmiesHunter-gatherers of Africa
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Life among the pygmies of the Ituri forest, Congo Free State, Page 22. When hunting in the forrests of the Congo Free State and they kill an extra big animal, and the chief is not with them, they do not touch it till his arrival, when he decides whether to move the animal to the village or the village to the animal. This is the chorus they are very fond of singing, when translated.
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