[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. [100] No ostriches are met with in Angola, and as to beads made of ostrich eggs, I can give no explanation. [101] Monteiro was told that the Sobas and their wives among the Musele only use human fat to anoint their bodies (vol. ii, p. 157). [102] The practice of wearing such nose ornaments exists to the present day in Lunda, among the Bangala and other tribes (Capello and Ivens, _Benguela_, vol. i, p. 265; Carvalho, _Expedição Portugueza ao Muatianvua_, Lingua de Lunda, p. 367; _Ethnographia_, p. 349). [103] Marginal note by Purchas: “They use this ceremony in Florida.” [104] Civet-cats are numerous in this part of Africa. [105] I am inclined to believe, from what we learn from Cavazzi and other missionaries, that only those children were killed which were born within the _Kilombo_. On the other hand, at the Court of the ferocious queen Jinga, we are told by Captain Füller, a Dutchman, that, on two days in 1648, 113 new-born infants born _outside_ the camp were killed (Dapper, _Africa_, p. 545). [106] _Ngunza_, according to Cordeira da Matta, means all-powerful; according to Bentley a herald, who speaks on behalf of a chief. [107] See note, p. 19.