[131] This is Red Point, or Ponta Vermelha, where there is a grove of palms.
[132] Kabinda, 5° 31´ S., on a fine bay.
[133] The river Kakongo, or Chiloango, enters the sea in lat. 5° 9´ S. to the north of Landana. It is a very considerable river, and its waters discolour the sea for seven miles.
[134] Mbale, according to Bentley, is the coast region between the Congo and Ambrisette; but on Pigafetta’s map (1591) a town, Monbales, is shown to the south-east of the chief place of Sonho (Sonyo).
[135] Pinda, or Mpinda, in Sonyo, is below the Mbanza of Sonyo, which on modern maps figures as St. Antonio.
[136] The Luiza Loango, or Massábi, river enters the sea in lat. 5° 1´ S. Its depth across the bar is only 2 ft., but once within, it presents a fair waterway for over a hundred miles. Kaia is about ten miles up it.
[137] The Golfo das Almadias, or Canoe Bay, as described by Battell, corresponds to Black Point Bay, 4° 48´ S., the inner bay of which, less than half a mile across, had become all but silted up by 1884.
[138] No logwood is found in Loango, and Purchas points out in a note (post, p. 82), that Battell’s dyewood must be Red Sanders (Pterocarpus tinctorius), the tacula of Angola, and identical with the tavila of D. Lopez (Ficalho, Plantas uteis, p. 207). Pechuel-Loesche (Loango Exp., vol. iii, p. 190), on the other hand, states that the dye known as tacula is camwood (Baphia nitida, Afz.), and Bentley (Dict. of the Kongo Language), who calls the dye nkula, is of the same opinion. Another red dye is obtained from the Njilla sonde (Pterocarpus erinaceus, Poir.).
[139] Nlunga (Bentley) or malungu (Cordeira da Matta) is the native word for bracelet.