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THERE had always been, perhaps, more reason than white people might concede, for some of those strange beliefs that lived and held and proved themselves in this part of Black Africa. Take that belief in the "Ovengua," for example--the one to which Bele, the Beast Man, had referred in his own mind when thinking of Kwa.
The "Ovengua" were terrible, shadowy creatures--spirits, they were believed to be--that roamed the jungle at night, killing men and eating them, or sending them back to their villages at last crazy and frightfully disfigured.