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Dsaagoa.
Mocaranga.
may be purchafed for a trifle ; the favourite articles beiri^ blue linens,
o]d cloaths, brafs rings, copper wire, large glafs beads, tobacco, pipes,
&c. The. fiih are numerous, and excellent; and turtle is taken on Deer
Iflandi The foil a rich black mould, fown with rice or maize in December^
or January; the dry feafon lafting from April till October.
There are, many fruit, trees and ufeful. plants, particularly the fugar-
cane; but rio horfes, afles, nor buffaloes. The wild animals are the
tiger, rhinoceros* antelope,, hare, rabbit, wild .hog, with Quioea
tens, partridges, quails, wild geefe, ducks, and fbme fmall fingiag^i^s.
The natives are Kaffers, that is pagans, of a bright black colour, tall
and ftout,,go nearly naked, and aretatooed. They are a good humoured
and harmlefe people, and fond of exeurfions on the-- river* there being
what is called a king of the water, only yielding in power to Capelleh.
Dike the reft of Africa, the country is not populous; and Mr. White
fuppofes that the inhabitants around this- large h a y m a y be finm fix
to ten tboufand.
The tnoft civilized and powerful kingdom feems to be that of Mocaranga,
abfurdly called Monomotapa,* which'has been ftyl'ed an.extehfive
• This is the appellation o f the monarch*, not o f the kingdom.' 'T f ie .-C ip ^ a r '’2^mliFzi, a
large riverreneirclesflie kiogdtta on the W . and N. the larger; o r frefterii part is fiylediMbca-
ranga, the ealtern Botonga. See D ’Anville's map of Africa, 1749. .Sofala and S.abia are con-
fidered as parts o f this monarchy. The king’s refidence was at Zimbao. about 240 miles inland.
The accounts of Mocaranga are very imperfeft when compared even with thofe of Congo, being
derived from the general Portuguefe hiftorians, Barros and Faria, with- Maraud, I .infehoten and
Oforio. Vincent Le Blanc is not a credible traveller, but hisllory of Alfondi i*; well < told." See
Modern Uniyerfal Hillory, vol. it. edit. 1760. T h e remarkable hiftory of Zinga, queen of Am
gola, is from Cavazzi. ' ’ ' p i "
M. le Grand, in his differtations annexed to Lobe’s -voyage to Abyffinia, has extracted an
account o f Mocaranga, &c. from the Ethiopia Oriental o f John dos Santos, a Dominican, printed
a t Evora, 1609. The great river Zambezi is faid by the natives to rife in a vail lake, and to re-
ceive its name from a Village not far from its fource. I t is Very rapid, andinfome^ld;cds a league
in breadth : at thirty leagues diftahee from tbe.fea it divides into two branches called Luabo ( the
Suabo is a river which falls into the Zambezi), and the'Guilimane, or river
becaufe Vafco de Gama there ere6led a done pillar. The Delta-conflfts o f five mouths »fepttke
.Luabo is the chief ftream, and is navigated as far as the kingdom o f Sicambd, above Tete, where
there is a eataraft o f ftupendous h e ig h t; and rocky rapids for 20 leagues to the kingdom’of.Chi-
eoua, and the fiber mines. T h e Zambezi inundates the country like the Nile; .but in the month
o f April, From Maffapa in Mocaranga, which it the- chief kingdom o f the Monomotapa or
5 ' . Emperor,
fenfiVe empirej-while the/whole!oflAfiaiea 'would notfprm an empire, Mo
equalf t'oi.'tlafe Rmlffa-n/.-a-ndi wóblffieërtainlyf' be fonnd/iaaferiorfin' pop«--'
fetich. TheÉMl of thiabountTy is faid to- ,be »fertile,' (hough the' plains
be ^expofed "to, great 'heatl'whi!e the ntotmjalas1 called! Lupata, d'r, the^
Spine c#ithe'’WoFf,dl ;fèSrü a great chSih5ftre.fchin.gffr.sm -N.* covered,
withopsrpetual ftj&w. rTHq peopl'm are;'6.1 mo ft naked : and,' Uke'mhpfe-
öf the- weftermcoaft, itipetefti (foully afraid of piagicah char-ms/ Accord-,
ing toffMe doubtful accou-aitspofi tHs country, thé Jdng# oh diystof ceremony,
-wears a little fpade bangig by his fide, as an emblem eff-cal^
civatiow.1 !The ahifflrei>;,ofe-,the'.gteat-arefr®tajfie'd at'coiirt‘-awi'höftages-3
and the ffeing fends- 'annually ancoffieer tto fthe -.pjraïïipcesVsW’hien the'
ftéöptöè teftify'-their fidffky*- b^^axfen^iiijfhi'ng'i'MieiBfhrls,.’ a'nd kindling-
ót’h ers tfr'om-nhhioffickv torch. {There are' feveral iqueeösV’ïme of Whötö
Was1 jhote^tihfs /of <the/TortUguefe, "aad^anatlfer ^fltite-llMdelrsP* /Ebb
emperor’s »guard is fafff/to, confrftftof .wonxeo 1-igljtly, armed.OL<Tte
T&rtuguefe have hétoftw^fortreffes, amd-anofcher ftation near the rnmnin-
üaiè'^’öf Fura, which-are fkid' tö abound in gold';- It-'is to -be regretted,
that ‘of «their African fettlements, Whieh
would be extremely interefting m the' oölcufe'' géograp4hy of' that' eMv
tinent- ;• but they- are of all nations the 'mo'ftf illiterate, and’" the inoft
;(ietermined' ensémi^ of-their owrccélébrtt-y.-:
Tte, Moors or Arabs are eftabliJhecL in.£oh{iderah^ numbers on-'.the ■
ToaM-bf Ajari and- Zanguebar, ah'd1- feeM- toink-vè' ‘ ih<vfentill'^le term-, óf
Kafr.aria, for in the Arabic Kafre figb|f% an: hobeli|y-er’ ;,wMnce ffte
Spellatic^ijas being wholly .vague andC uhc|&ain,, fhould hgMdifmil%3
from geography»*
Emperor,, great- quantities of - gojd are-broughti being .found in. the neighboujhdbd of tl\e .vafl
-mountain"Fura or Afura ; where it is.faid', that there are ruins of edifices built withr ftvjnc.’Af d
lime, while even '{he-modern palaces are only- ebhftru&ed-of wood and cla.y^;coy,ered‘ with briam.
■Furaiis zoo leagues fi-.om,t-he fea. The forelb.ofThebe,..on a rivet; .of the fame.-name, affords trees
of wpnderful bpauty aiid^maghitiide. Amber is faid to .abound on the. coaft; (ambefgris ij-ianjl there
is a fithery for pearls near theulaMs of Bceicas. Dos Santo's argues'that this(wlsifitle Op®3afi'
»the ancients: As to il ulhilh, the word.in merely implies th& ocean,' Atlantic
or Indian ; but in othef'.paifoges feems as clearly to denote Tarteffus near Cadiz in Spain..
*' I t is probable! thfere .may be recent' Arabian defcriptions,,o£ Africa, .-whiGh ioiight to be-
feduloufly enquired after, as the Moors are'intimately acquainted with the greater part of that con-
,tinent. The Kaffers, fo called in the fouth, ought to be dJftinguilhed by their native name ICoulli,
Barlow, 219.; and they cannot even.pronounce the word K affir.
The