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B enin.
Loango.
AFRICA. :
-The-kiiVgdora oEtfignih: is alerted to'He veryconfideratale 5 and it is
faid' that the ’monarch could raife^an army ®£ Hne, hundred.'thoufajad,
/The capital «f*t&e‘feme name -is: faid to contain' thirty fereets of -l@w
houfes, while" the: inhabitants are remarkable for cleanlinefs and.- pro-
priety of behaviouir. They are- find to .acknowledge itfuprem.eihcfte--
volent deity, whofe worfhip they-deem fup-erflumiSj /asMheiiCan pgiflM
m influenced, enraged, nor appealed ybuEtbeyioffer, facrifices to( i#f^rjpr
and nialignadr fpritsj, in order todi^h^:tdieir.>gnsnily.f' £j
Loasg© is .a country of n© jmaJJ' extent, 1 on 'thfef HT£f Gfongp, *ft4
•of which an amount has ,beep:pubbffl^g% gigaftt|§ apd jpthprftJ t^a-.
pf Ogilby is dhieflytraaflaled. The ifjjftfjfe .afigne^hef
therp: are weMters^LmithMpotters, Jcatpentprgjj an'dltE^^era^|.g§pgf^,,
caps^ and beads. The exports .are ifel ephants^eth,'f? r^i -ifjf/J,
irmu- The.common people are h^d. ib
grate. The fuperftition of magfofrwasls, S«fs ufual among the
tribesand the1 fuppofed; enehanttperit or .f£peyipp,$o$ypr is Called
WhCtA A «na g f r i a n J a - . f t y l e d gaitgtr.^ / b e f t a n d
count of Loango is that drawn uphy Proyart, fropi the .m^mpics.jQ&^elgarde,
"and other French miffionafieB. -,whoJ.fetjJgd^.ih
4766,’ —The capital Bouaii is by ;theJftench called jhoango. tj TfJ^jjj^y
feafon begins with April, and end's with O.£tober:p but tbp;g^e^tpft|h^^t
* The river of Benin appears to beconfiderable from Bofman’saccount, <p.39!9,.But:is divided
into many branches, and the climate moft pernicious. The government feem's a fingulkr.anllo-
cracy of three chiefs, who control even the king. . Strings of coral are worri'as badges (if honour;
"but this coral, p7 408, is a pale red earth or ftone like fpeckled red' marble, andkhere is' alfo,
p. 102, a blue fort. Was the coral of Tibet of this kind?: :Here, as :in .ahnoft. :evei:y. part of
Africa, the commoneft events are imputed to witchcraft. Benin is only a village of clay k'oufes,
there being no Hones in the country larger than a man’s fift.
x. In Anzico, a kingdom to the N. W., (the royal title is Micoco) Dapper afferts that the
markets were fupplied with human fleih ; nay it is even affirmed that all ,the dead areAcyoured.
Univ. Hill. xiii. 266. Angola is faid to produce the orang outang, there called quoas morrqu,
and Tulpius has defcribed one fe.nt to the Prince of Orange, while Damper and.Ogijb.y have, pub;
liffied a print, prom Angola many (laves are exported. The proper name of the country feems
Dongo, while N Gola is the royal ftyle, but the N is fcarcely pronounced. Proyart, 175.
3 Paris, 17.76, i2mo. with a curious map of the mouth of the Zahir,
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TH E W E 5 T E RN C O AS TV 749
& -inkhe? raihyf^faW? o f if e otheftTi^ Our' autiferfaffertethat Loango,
• e '^ « ^ h e ^ ® ^ ^ i i i^ '^ | e f : i f 3fhefe.'.*efayvwithpwli.;i'ro'cb:ieir^ftbH@i;^and this*
i#fers -do"-hot Si^eife ilm-tUg ¥ad%$afon‘;C't The jMl>/feebt%lt?®jDbetwhdliy *
«|p]i:ta frito f-va’ft (aKy&s. ^Vegetation
no we\*es*:fl'o\m (Kfe^ lafoA Itre-Es 'airfe th'fcf*'h©lbj|! (b$p!am^.»Ea»agey
feffeja^'ltibikitdfWibh tfoiiWot&nfuihrub,«’ and fug&ui caned. ^The-jpatraJ '
wihey a favdwit.g African'bfeVerag^J jMMired by^pibffei'iig the bred
‘wbeVe the fruit- b%il®W#&ytrll' from? thc^aunb. -
lecouifNjf tGodgoTeerifetb h i 4i^ rt^y1JblMJ'Anybody Cone«wL
V'izzvu^ Mom^CItfchlfe, a capuchin m^ffibn'afy5,* which apj^ars hWevei?
begir?s Whsfcifta^becai]'ed the f^tiAg, .hutrWvj ram^cuntinup for
or »three mojrthsd' Ahouitr7%ef end -of Januai y jM'"pUe4wMil®dnd in
M ^ r b h mo-re '^etntle r a th ^ e om m e n c e ■ audv.cQn.taaise tiffiKf&y, w^snp&e^1 *
is ^,feei|ndUii'ry fba|bit; p t har.veflj their nominal wjater..'heginn-tiig; in
July. .The Zahir o® Za"1F Is. a gr;g..nd>au4 rapid riyer, r^ud",|he mojQth
faidt bS'h.e fivetjleagjdes.-.in wid(b, faefliouingt.th^jifea |qeas.gE^bidil^nfte»,
■Ifhas vaft tafaraias,j^ar ©i|eft9 f whkbifca1 mine,rif-hrip-|y
per./J- The Dante, is an animal like a fmall wil|h
*«6ibabjingdt%>rffr®f a. g o a t s , f h o ^ e ^ , ^tytobf4ll^|arel8»
e«Sh iitri^ie,:eh%f ..g^y^^sall^d'-fSt. Balyad^jr -by.jJ^a. Poryngne^ '!Tg:»
®ftg6efe:hav?e tb^ negrp^oi^nr,without tf^ flu te s ,,, which rjcthfr^vs^
lemble the European ;.i hairT^i}ej4Haigs| of,,a ^©epjpe^di^i bravyn,siand
eyemtof a;dark green.;or fea.yplpur. j-Opce.a year the grayes;,ar^ og^afdjj
and the bodies or bones- decorated. This cuftom l^eiifts peculiar to
4 P. 11. The climate is moft pernicious to ftrangers, but the ufe of flannel aid the bark is
recommended by Mr. Maxwell.. Bee his.chart of the river of CongO'^or
of the African Pilot, p. 88« But the natives are fo healthy ^,ha,t the king of Kacongo was 128
years of <gev Proyart,, »•>!
* It was printed at Bologna, 16S7V folio;; and tranflated by Labat mihilE/1 tojie Occidental^ *
y vol. which mtift not he confounded with the Afriquc Occidentals of that moll voluminous editor
and compiler,
+ The Zahir, or, river of Congo, is very rapid anti’ brings do wn riumHetf 'of'floating araiitt^ilKh
the fiver Benin, fome a hundred yards in length.' AfriCatf Piltft^f-vS. U . p.'f 81 Bnttbe’iTtohf 11
is only fomewhat more than two leagues in breadth. Ib. 86. f The Englllh yearly export from ,
Yomba many cargoes of a red dyeing wooiJ. f Proyart, 159 ; who adds, p, 167, that 206 regular
troops would conquer all the fouth of Africa.
Africa