Viewing page 84 of 98

This transcription has been completed. Contact us with corrections.

Of the exact geographical position of the Mandjola, I could not acquire any definite information. As that part of the continent which they are said to inhabit is yet unexplored, & the map exhibits only a few scattered names of tribes apparently set down without much attempt at precision ^[[insertion]] I was unable to locate with certainty any of the towns which the Mundjola described as belonging to his country [[/insertion]]. The native place of Gwomba, ^[[insertion]] as [[/insertion]] he said, was Mbe, situated on the great river Muolī; & [[strikethrough]] if this be the same as Buali, on which Loango is [[original strikethrough]] placed [[/original strikethrough]] located,[[/strikethrough]] he ^[[insertion]] with his captors [[/insertion]] was three days [[strikethrough]]in  reaching[[/strikethrough]] ^[[insertion]] in canoes, before reaching [[/insertion]] Loando (Loango) when he embarked. Loango is the same with Buali, & the latter name may be also that of the river on which it is [[strikethrough]] set[[/strikethrough]] situated, corrupted by the Mundjola to Muoli. If this be the case, we might place Mbē in the interior [[strikethrough]]and [[/strikethrough]] between two & three hundred miles [[strikethrough]]east? [[/strikethrough]] north east of Loango. Near this position, de Bené places a [[strikethrough]] tribe [[/strikethrough]] the [[underline]] Ambus [[/underline]], which may possibly be the same. The next town or tribe to Mbē was [[underline]] Mude'mbe [[/underline]], which may answer to Mɑtimbɑ, laid down east of Amba.
   Besides the above, I received from the Mundjōlɑ a long list of names of different-places in & near his country, but which it is impossible in the present state of our knowledge to identify. They all have, [[strikethrough]] [[?]] [[/strikethrough]] so to speak, a Guinea character - such as - [[Ntçe'ngo]], Ngoɑ'ngɑ, Nde'mbɑ, Ndengo, Ntea'be, Ng uāmɑ, Ng wāti, Djūgwi, Ngwī, Ndā, &c.
   I remarked both the French u ([[ũ?]]) & the English u (ĭu) in the dialect: many of the words begin with an n or m prefixed to a consonant.

Vocabulary.
--------"---------

III. [[strikethrough]] Kongo. [[/strikethrough]]  Congo 
   At the time ^[[insertion]] that [[strikethrough]]this part[[/strikethrough]] [[/insertion]]  [[strikethrough]] of the discovery [[/strikethrough]] the coast of lower Guinea was first visited by the Portuguese they found [[strikethrough]] it made the  [[discoveries?]] [[/strikethrough]] most of the countries from Cape Lopez ^[[insertion]] Gonzalo [[/insertion]], a little south of the Equator to Cape Negro, in Lat. 15° ([[strikethrough]] ? [[/strikethrough]] including Loango, Congo, Angola, & Benguela) under the dominion of the [[strikethrough]] Emp [[/strikethrough]] Congo  Emperor. Various revolutions, caused, in ^[[insertion]] great [[/insertion]] part, by the Portuguese themselves, from since  that time, broken [[off?]] this extensive kingdom, & reduced the sway of the Congo sovereign to the territory comprised between the Zaire & the Dandé - or about [[strikethrough]] tuo [[/strikethrough]] two hundred miles of sea-coast. These limits also define [[strikethrough]] stu [[/strikethrough]] with sufficient accuracy the extent [[strikethrough]] to [[/strikethrough]] ^[[insertion]] within [[/insertion]] which the Congo [[Emperor?]] prevails.