270 DANTU PLACE-NAMES IN AFRICA. 



De la Goa Bay speaks for itself (Algoa is spelt likewise in 

 a 1640 nia]:»). MoQambi(|iie at first sight seems I'ortugnese, but 

 the word is Mzambiji, probably the same as Zambesi. This 

 river has many names in the many dialects of those who dwell 

 near it : Europeans know it as the great river of the MoZambique 

 province. For the many Portugtiese names surviving in South 

 Africa ftirther south, see Air. Pettman's interesting book. 



Noting other European names, such as Penguin and Panta- 

 loon Islands, on the east coast, let us now pass again to the west. 

 Here the Portuguese names are much more frecjuent. Thus, 

 coasting Angola northward, from C. Frio ( " cold "' after e(|ua- 

 torial waters) : Sacco Armazao, Alljino Point, Sta Rosa, C. 

 Negro Bay, Annunciation Point, Chapeo Armado, S. Nicolas 

 Bay, Capes SS. Martha and Alaria, Pta. Salinas and S. Jose. 

 Egito (i.e., Egypt, cf. the Nylstroom in the Transvaal), Novo 

 Redondo, C. Alorro, Pta. Longa, Pta. das Palmeirinhas ( and in 

 Cabinda, Pt. Palmar), C. Lagosta, Pequena, S. Antonio again, 

 Pt. Padrao. But the names here are by no means confined to 

 the coast. \\"e have S. Salvador, Duque da Braganca, Ka])elle 

 (though I am not sure that this is not a native name adai)ted), 

 Silva Porta, S. januario, S. Bento do Sul, S. Miguel. This 

 shews the more complete occupation of the western colony as 

 nearer to Portugal, and the wider spread of Saints' names seems 

 to reflect fuller evangelisation, more numerous missions. Mo- 

 zambique remained more de])endent on India; Angola was less 

 the mere half-way house. 



French Congo has Capes Lopez, Sta. Clara and Esteiras, 

 but not a French name, except Point Noire and Cape S. 

 Catherine, unless we count Point Ognone and Nazareth Bay; 

 and up-country, in the Congo, there are, of course, several 

 French and Belgian iillcs. Spanish Cuinea has Cape S. [can, S. 

 Tome, Benito, and Campo. Little Fernando Po, on tlie other 

 hand, has scarce any natii'c names on the map. Cameroons (the 

 name is Portuguese) have Lobcthal, Tappenbach's !\a])ids, Sodcn 

 Island. Rio del Rey, ( ?Lolo ) dorf, Carnot, and Job. Albrechts 

 Hohe. Roughly speaking, the names you will find, except tho.se 

 menti(Mied, are, tliroughout the west coast, all liantu. until we 

 reach the northern limit. o\er against the Sudan and I lamitic 

 fields, to which boimdary we must now turn. 



The most northern point of the l>antn s])eakers (according 

 to Struck's nia]) in Mcinhof's llamburg Lectures, which here 

 I am mostly tollowing), is in the C anici'oons, just east of 

 Kororofa, on the parallel dixiding .\ortli and .South .Nigeria, 

 which territory bounds them on the West. North Cameroons, 

 like North .Nigeria, contains ln.tli ilamites and Sond.anese 

 (speaking linguistically), the I'.antu boimdary falling; awav (to 

 the east ot' the Kwili and Isubu ) to the liangi. which it crosses 

 about 3 (leg. North, and then rims irregularly mid\va\- between 

 the Congo Riwr and the noiahern Itoimdarx- of the Belgian state, 

 reaching the Celle about Ilima. Tlir remaining countrx between 



