Most prominent features, and some countries on the west and south coasts of Africa from the Senegal round to the Cape of Good Hope and Moçambique, bear Portuguese names: Cape _Verde_ is “The Green Cape,” Sierra Leone (_Serra Leoa_) is “The Lionlike Mountains,” Cape _Palmas_ “The Palm-trees Cape,” Cape Coast is _Cabo Corso_ “The cruising Cape,” _Lagos_ is “The Lakes,” Calabar (_Calabarra_) is “The bar is silent,” Cameroons is _Camaroẽs_ “prawns,” Gaboon is _Gabāo_ “The Hooded Cloak” (from the shape of the estuary), _Corisco_ is “Lightning,” Cape _Frio_ is “The Cold Cape” and _Angra Pequena_ is “The Little Cove,” and so on. All the prominent points on the Liberian coast, and most of the Niger mouths, have Portuguese names. Footnote 68: This is a little coral islet about 2 miles long by ¼ mile broad, situated between 2 and 3 miles from the coast (a shallow bay), in 15 degrees south latitude, where the East African coast approaches nearest to Madagascar. It commands the Moçambique Channel. Its native name was probably originally Musambiki. By the neighbouring East African tribes it is now called Muhibidi, Msambiji, and Msambiki. It has sometimes been the only parcel of land remaining in Portuguese hands during the vicissitudes of their East African empire. Footnote 69: A corruption of _Mwene-mutapa_. According to some authorities this title meant “Lord Hippopotamus,” the hippopotamus on the Zambezi above Tete being looked upon as a _Totem_ or sacred animal indicative of the royal clan; but in my personal opinion _Mwene-mutapa_ is really “Lord of the Mine, or gold mining,” _mutapo_ or _mtapo_ being a shallow pit dug in clay or sand for mining, or washing gold. Footnote 70: Where they have not yet brought under subjection the Muhammadan Makua and the Arab half-castes of Angoshe. The chief native foes of the Portuguese in East Africa at the close of the 16th century were the Ba-zimba, one of those Zulu-like marauding tribes like the modern Angoni, which would range over hundreds of miles in a few months and commit devastations that left their effects for nearly a century. Footnote 71: Except Mombasa, which was retaken and held between 1728 and 1729. Footnote 72: Zumbo was given up (though it was never much more than a Jesuit Mission Station) in 1740. Footnote 73: These Makololo chiefs were formerly headmen of Livingstone’s second expedition, left behind by him on the Cataract Shire to stiffen the resistance of the timid natives against the Muhammadan slave raiders. Footnote 74: The modern and existing town of that name was not founded till 1867. Footnote 75: