+Mbale+ (Mombales), 6.5 S., 12.7 E., 42 +Mbalundu+ (Bailundo), 12.2 S., 15.7 E., 172 +Mbamba+, province of Kongo, 12, 123. The chief Mbanza is probably identical with Kiballa, 7.5 S., 14.0 E. +Mbamba+ (Dapper, 577), district of Lamba, 9.1 S., 14.0 E. +Mbamba a mpungu+, village on river Mbengu (Garcia Mendes, ii), 8.9 S., 14.1 E. +Mbamba Tunga+, soba, 147, 158 +Mbanza+, residence of a chief or king. +Mbata+, province of Kongo, capital, 5.8 S., 15.4 E., 39, 104, 120 +Mbemba+, same as Mpemba, or Mbamba, 42 +Mbembe.+ _See_ Bembe. +Mbengu+ (Bengo), river, 5.7 S., 13.3 E., 39, 155, 168 +Mbila+, sepulture, 165 +Mbiriji+ (Ambriz), river, 7.3 S., 12.9 E., 131, 132 +Mbuila+ (Ambuila), 8.0 S., 15.7 E., 120, 176, 181 +Mbuila amduwa+ (Ambuila dua, 168) +Mbuku+ (Buck), 4.9 S., 12.3 E.; and many others of the same name. +Mbula+, one of royal residences of Kongo, perhaps 5.2 S., 15.0 E., 134 +Mbula matadi+, D. Francisco, carried off by the Devil, 121. There are several villages named Matadi or Matari (“stones”), and a mbula matari lies beyond the Zaire in 5.5 S., 13.4 E. +Mbumba a ndala+, soba in Angola, 159 +Mbumbi+, soba in Mbamba, 7.9 S., 13.6 E., 123 +Mbundu+, root of a species of strychnos, 59 _n._ +Mbwela+ (Amboelle), 7.8 S., 15.0 E., (F. de Salles Ferreira, _An. do Cons. ultr._, ii, 1859, p. 59), 126 +Mechow+, Major, quoted, 199, 210 +Mello da Cunha+, Vasco de, 177 +Mello+, Fernão de, 115 +Mendes Castellobranco+, Garcia, quoted xvii, 14, 63, 64, 65, 120, 143-147, 145, 146, 154, 155, 162 +Mendes+, Pedro, quoted, 130 +Mendes+, Ruy, 115 +Mendonça+, João Furtado de, 17, 93, 155, 188 +Mendonça+, Antonio Texeira de, 173, 174, 189 +Menezes+, Gonçalo de Alcaçova Carneiro Carvalho da Costa de, 181 +Menezes+, Luis Cesar de, 190 +Menezes+, Gonçalo da Costa de Alcaçova Carneiro de, 184, 190 +Menezes+, Pedro Cezar de, 171-173, 186, 189 +Menezes e Souza+, Ayres de Saldanha de, 190 +Merolla+, Girolamo, of Sorrento, 132 +Messa+ (D. Lopez) is a town in Morocco. +Mfinda a ngulu+, forest between Sonyo and S. Salvador, 6.2 S., 13.2 E., 125 +Mfinda a nkongo+ (P. Manso, 355), perhaps E. of Lukunga, 5.2 S., 14.2 E. +Mfuma ngongo+, 6.3 S., 13.5 E. +Miguel+, Roque de, 167 +Military+ organisation, 185 +Millet+, 17 +Mimos+, synonym of Bakkebakke (Dapper). +Miracles+, 111, 121, 124 _n._, 124, 127, 129, 130 +Miranda+, Antonio de, 172 +Missions+ in Kongo, 108, 110, 111, 114; destruction of fetishes, 114, 117; scandalous conduct, 122; small results, 123, 126; heretic Dutchmen, 126; troubles in Sonyo, 132; failure in Kongo, 133; mission in Angola, 139, 183, 187 +Mo-.+ _See_ Mu-. +Moanda+, 5.9 S., 12.3 E., 49 +Mocata.+ _See_ Makuta.