[90] Human victims are still sacrificed by the diviner when consulting departed spirits (see A. R. Neves, Memoria, p. 119).
[91] Cavazzi (Historica Descrizione de tre Regni Congo, etc., Bologna, 1687, p. 207) gives a plan of a Jaga camp, or Kilombo. It is formed of a square stockade, having in its centre the quarters of the Commander-in-chief, within a triple hedge of thorns. Between the stockade, which has only a single gate, and the inner enclosure are the quarters of the six principal officers, including the Golambolo (ngolo, strength, mbula, a blow), or Lieutenant-General, the Tendala, or Commander of the Rear-guard, and the Mani Lumbo (lumbu, a stockade), or Engineer-in-chief.
[92] Tavales (see note, p. 21).
[93] Bahia das Vaccas, old name for Benguella Bay. There seems to be no native name for gold; yet Dr. Francisco José Maria de Lacerda, when with the abortive expedition of 1797, which was charged with the exploration of the Kunene, met a negress whose head-dress was composed of golden laminæ, said to have been washed in that river (Burton, Lacerda’s Journey to Cazembe, London, 1873, p. 23). Ladislaus Magyar (Reisen, p. 176), says that about 1833 a Brazilian miner washed gold in the mountains of Hambo. Quite recently, in 1900, the Mossamedes Company granted a lease of the Kasinga goldfields to an English company.
[94] The Imbondos are clearly the Nbundu of Angola, who draw the palm wine from the top, whilst the Jagas cut down the tree.
[95] Purchas adds, in a marginal note: “Fruges consumere nati.”
[96] “Flesh” in the sense of encourage.
[97] Calando should be Calandola (see note on p. 28).
[98] Mbamba, a whelk or trumpet-shell (Cordeiro da Matta, Dicc. Kimbundu).
[99] Mr. Dennet suggests msose, a turritella, popularly known as screw-shell.