Kenga is the landing-place of Loanga. They have there an idol called _Gumbiri_, and a holy house called _Munsa Gumbiri_,[242] kept and inhabited by an old woman, where once a year is a solemn feast, which they celebrate with drums, dances, and palm-wines; and then, they say, he speaketh under the ground. The people call him _Mokisso Cola_,[243] or a strong _Mokisso_, and say, that he comes to stay with _Chekoke_, the idol of the banza. That _Chekoke_ is a negro image, made sitting on a stool; a little house is then made him. They anoint him with _Toccola_ [_tacula_],[244] which is a red colour made of a certain wood, ground on a stone, and mixed with water, wherewith they daily paint themselves, from the waist upwards, esteeming it a great beauty; otherwise they account not themselves ready. It is for like purposes carried from hence to Angola. [_Possessed of the Fetish._] Sometimes it falls out that some man or boy is taken with some sudden enthusiasm, or ravishment, becoming mad, and making a whooping and great clamours. They call them _Mokisso-Moquat_[245] that is, taken of the _Mokisso_. They clothe them very handsomely, and whatever they bid in that fit (for it lasteth not very long), they execute as the _Mokisso’s_ charge. [_The Maramba Fetish._][246] _Morumba_[247] is thirty leagues northwards from hence, in the Mani Loango’s dominions, where he [Battell] lived nine months. There is a house, and in it a great basket, proportioned like to a hive, wherein is an image called _Morumba_, whose religion extendeth far. They are sworn to this religion at ten or twelve years old; but, for probation are first put in a house, where they have hard diet, and must be mute for nine or ten days, any provocation to speak notwithstanding. Then do they bring him before _Morumba_, and prescribe him his _Kin_ [kina], or perpetual abstinence from some certain meat. They make a cut in his shoulder like to a half moon, and sprinkle the blood at _Morumba’s_ feet, and swear him to that religion. In the wound they put a certain white powder in token of his late admission; which, so long as it continueth, doth privilege him to take his meat and drink with whomsoever he pleaseth, none denying him the same, at free cost. They also have their fatal trials before this image, where the accused party, kneeling down and clasping the hive, saith: “_Mene quesa cabamba Morumba_,” signifying that he comes thither to make trial of his innocence;[248] and if he be guilty he falls down dead; being free he is free’d. Andrew Battell saith he knew six or seven, in his being there, that made this trial. CHAP. X, § III.—OF THE GIACCHI, OR IAGGES.[249] [_Origin of the Jagas._]