[108] Human sacrifices among the Jaga are even now of frequent occurrence. They are made at the installation of a Jaga, one year after his election (when the sacrifice and its accompanying banquet are intended to conciliate the spirit of Kinguri, the founder of the Dynasty), at his death, on the outbreak of war, etc. The ceremony witnessed by Battell was an act of divination. The soothsayer summons the spirit of Kinguri, who is supposed to foretell the results of any enterprise about to be undertaken. In 1567, the Jaga Ngonga Kahanga, of Shela, having been advised by his soothsayers that he would suffer defeat in a war he was about to enter upon against the Portuguese, declined the arbitration of the sword, and submitted voluntarily. The body of the victim is cooked with the flesh of a cow, a goat, a yellow dog, a cock and a pigeon, and this mess is devoured (ceremoniously) by the Jaga and his _makotas_ (councillors). [109] The handle of this switch contains a potent medicine, which protects the owner against death. [110] Casengula, called Kissengula, p. 86, was perhaps a trombash, for _sangula_ means to kill at a long range (Bentley). [111] The Jagas are still buried sitting, and wives are sacrificed (Capello and Ivens, _From Benguella to the Territory of the Iacca_, vol. i, p. 330). In Ngois, likewise, the dead are occasionally buried in a sitting posture (Bastian, vol. i, p. 82). For a full account of a funeral, see Dennett’s _Folklore_, p. 11. [112] These feasts are intended to secure the goodwill of the deceased, so that he may not injure the living. Human beings are occasionally sacrificed, in addition to goats and fowls. [113] João Rodrigues Coutinho received his appointment as Governor at Madrid, on January 30, 1601 (see Appendix). [114] Ndemba, in Quissama, a territory famous for its salt mines, the chief of which was the Caculo Caquimone Casonga (Cadornega, 1702). In 1783, when P. M. Pinheiro de Lacerda invaded Quissama, a Caculo Caquimone still held the mines of Ndemba. _Kakulu_, the elder of twins, a title. [115] Outaba seems to be a misprint for _libata_ (village). Tombo is on the north bank of the Coanza, almost due south of Loanda. [116] Songa, on the Coanza, below Muchima, a village in the territory of the Caculo Caquimone Casonga. [117] Machimba I believe to be Muchima or Muxima, whilst (according to Cadornega) a chief Cavao occupied a district above Lake Quizua and below Massangano.