[268] There is no such city in Angola. It seems to me that Knivet found the name in Linschoten, a translation of whose work appeared in 1698. Linschoten says here of the island of Luandu, which lies in front of the Portuguese town of S. Paul de Loanda, that “there were seven or eight villages upon it, at one of which called ‘Holy Ghost’, resides the Governor of Kongo, who takes care of the right of fishing up shells.” This “Governor” was an officer of the King of Kongo. The island, with its valuable cowrie fishery, was ceded to Portugal in 1649. [269] _Ngulu_, a hog. [270] _Sanji_, a hen. [271] _I’mboa_, or _mbwa_, dog. [272] Earlier in his narrative he mentions having seen, at the Straits of Magellan, “a kind of beast bigger than horses; they have great eyes about a span long, and their tails are like the tail of a cow; these are very good: the Indians of Brazil call them _tapetywason_: of these beasts I saw in Ethiopia, in the Kingdom of Manicongo. The Portugals call them _gombe_” (marginal note by Purchas). The gombe (_ngombe_) of the Portugals is undoubtedly a cow, whilst the _tapetywason_, called “taparussu” in a _Noticia de Brazil_ of 1589, and _tapyra_, in the language of the Tupi Indians, is applied to any large beast, and even to the oxen imported by the Portuguese, which they call _tapyra sobay go ara_, that is, “foreign beasts,” to distinguish them from their own _tapyra caapora_ or “forest beast.” [273] This account of a “trial by battle” does much credit to the author’s ingenuity. No such custom is referred to by any other visitor to the Kongo. The meaning of “Mahobeque” we cannot discover, but _mbenge-mbenge_ means “principally.” [274] _Nkadi_, one who is, and _mpungu_, the highest. The usual word to express the idea of God is _nzambi_, or _nzambi ampungu_, God the most high! _Nkadi ampemba_, according to Bentley, means Satan. The word used in Angola is, _Karia-pemba_. [275] _Ri-konjo_, banana. [276] _Mutombo_ is the flour from which cassava-bread is made. [277] The name for bread, both in Kimbundu and Kishikongo, is _mbolo_ (derived from the Portuguese word for cake or _bolo_). _Anou_ or _auen_ may stand for _mwan_, a cassava-pudding; _tala_ means look! _kuna_, here! The Rev. Thomas Lewis would say, in the Kongo language of Salvador: _Umpana mbolo tambula nzimbu_; literally, “Give me bread, take or receive money.” [278] The cowrie-shells fished up at Luanda Island (the old “treasury” of the Kings of Kongo) are called _njimbu_ in Angola, but _nsungu_ in Kongo. _Njimbu_ in Kongo means beads, or money generally, and hence the author’s “gullgimbo” evidently stands for _ngulu anjimbu_, red beads. [279] _Npuku_, a field mouse. [280] Crimbo (_kirimbo_) seems to be a corruption of the Portuguese _carimbo_, a stamp. [281] The Rev. Thomas Lewis suggests: _Mundele ke sumbanga ko, kadi wan bele-bele_; that is, “The white men do not buy, but they have gone away in a hurry.”