Fans

Fans, a race of aborigines, but apparently not true Negroes, in western equatorial Africa, between the Gaboon and the Ogoway rivers, first accurately described by Du Chaillu. They are a fine race of savages, but are avowedly cannibals, and their morals have suffered sadly from contact with the French. They are constantly moving westwards, and in 1867 Admiral Fleuriot de Langle estimated that no fewer than 60,000 had within a few years approached the French settlements on the Gaboon.