+Vambu a ngongo+, a vassal of Kongo, in the south, who sided with the Portuguese. He seems to be identical with Nambu a ngongo, _q. v._ +Vasconcellos+, Ernesto, quoted, 210 +Vasconcellos+, Luiz Mendes de, 163, 188 +Vasconcellos da Cunha+, Bartholomeu 127, 189 +Vasconcellos da Cunha+, Francisco de, 167-170, 174, 179, 189 +Veanga+ (Paiva Manso, 244), a prince of Kongo. Rev. Tho. Lewis suggests _Nkanga_, E. of S. Salvador, 6.3 S., 14.6 E. +Vellez+, João Castanhosa, 147 +Velloria+, João de, 149, 153, 155 +Verbela+, a river, perhaps the same as Barbela (Duarte Lopez). +Viéra+, Antonio, 113 +Vieira+, Antonio, a negro, 119 +Vieira+, João Fernandez de, 173, 179, 183-185, 189 +Vilhegas+, Diogo de. _See_ Antonio de Dénis. +Voss+, Isaac, his work on the Nile, xv +Vumba+ (Va-umba, “at or near Umba,”) a river that runs to the Zaire (Lopez), called _Vamba_ (Cavazzi) = the _Hamba_ (C. and I). Mechow (_Abh. G. F. E._, 1882, p. 486) mentions a large river _Humba_ to the E. of the Kwangu; a river _Wamba_ joins the lower Kwangu; another _Vamba_ joins the lower Zaire, and leads up to Porto Rico. (Vasconcellos, _Bol._, 1882, 734); and there is a river _Umba_ or _Vumba_ in E. Africa. (_Vumba_ = to make pots, in Kongo). _Vamba_ is perhaps another name for the Kwangu. +Vunda+, district of Kongo (Paiva Manso, 104); but _Vunda_ means “to rest,” and there are many of these mid day halting-places of the old slave gangs, the villages where they passed the night being called Vemadia, _i.e._, Ave Maria (Tho. Lewis). A village _Vunda_, on the Kongo, 5.2 S., 13.7 E. +Walkenaer+, quoted, 19, 22 +Wamba+, river. _See_ Vumba. +Wembo+, or Wandu, district 7.5 S., 15.0 E., 123, 126. _See_ Ouuanda. +Welwitsch+, quoted, 16, 17 +West India Company+, Dutch, 170 +Wheat+ (maize), 7, 11 +Wilson+, Rev. Leighton, quoted, 134 +Witchcraft+, 61 +Women+, first European, at Luandu, 155 +Wouters+, a Belgian capuchin, 132 +Ybare.+ _See_ Ibare. +Yumba+, country, 3.3 S., 10.7 E. 53, 82 +Zaire+, (Nzari, or Nzadi). _See_ Kongo. +Zariambala+, Nzari Ambala of Zucchelli, probably the Mamballa R. of Turkey, which is the main channel of the Kongo in 12.9 E. +Zebra+, and zebra tails, 33, 63 +Zenze+ (Nzenza), river bank, _Nzanza_, table land, said to be the proper name of the river M’bengu, and also the name of several districts. +Zenze angumbe.+ _See_ Nzenza. +Zerri+ (Chera), N. of Mboma, 5.8 S., 13.1 E. +Zimba+, the first Jaga, 152; the Zimba are identical with the Maravi in East Africa, 150 +Zimbo+, soldiers of a Jaga (Cavazzi, 183). +Zoca+, an inland town, S. of Mbata (D. Lopez). +Zolo+ (Nzolo), a village on road from S. Salvador to Mbata, 6.0 S., 15.1 E. +Zombo+, (Mosombi), the tribe inhabiting Mbata, 5.8 S., 15.5 E.