[71] _Tavale._ Mr. Dennet suggests that _tavale_ corresponds to the _libala_ of Loango, a word derived from the Portuguese _taboa_ (table), for the instrument of this name consists of a board supported by two sticks of wood, and kept in its place by wooden pegs driven into the ground. The player beats this board with his two index fingers. A. R. Neves, _Mem. da Epedição a Cassange_, p. 110, calls _tabalha_ a drum, which is beaten to make known the death of a Jaga Cassange. [72] Mbala or Embala merely means town or village. Lad. Magyar (_Reisen in Süd-Afrika_, p. 383) has a district Kibala, abounding in iron, the chief town of which is Kambuita on the river Longa. Walckenaer’s suggestion (_Histoire des Voyages_, vol. xiii, p. 30) that Bambala and Bembe are identical is quite unacceptable. [73] The baobab is indifferently called by Battell _alicunde_, _licondo_, _elicondi_, _olicandi_, or _alicunde_, all of which are corruptions of _nkondo_, by which name the tree is known in Congo. The Portuguese know this characteristic tree of the coast-land and the interior as _imbondeiro_ (from _mbondo_ in Kimbundu). Its inner bark yields a fibre known as _licomte_, is made into coarse cloth, and is also exported to Europe to be converted into paper. The wood is very light. The pulp of the fruit is refreshing, and was formerly esteemed as a remedy against fever and dysentery. The seeds are eaten. The shell (_macua_) is used to hold water (hence the popular name of Calabash tree). Ficalho distinguishes three species, viz., _Adansonia digitata_, Linn., the fruit of which is longish; _A. subglobosa_, bearing a bell-shaped fruit; _A. lageniformis_, yielding a fruit shaped like a cucumber (see Monteiro, _Angola_, vol. i, p. 78; Ficalho, _Plantas uteis_, p. 100). [74] The cedar of the Portuguese is _Tamarix articulata_, Vahl., and resembles a cypress (Ficalho, _Plantas uteis da Africa_, 1884, p. 94). [75] Kizangu, in Kimbundu, means fetish. Burton (_Two Trips to Gorilla Land_, vol. ii, p. 120), saw a like image, also called Quesango, in a village above Boma.