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voyage of Grandpré, it was found that Tatw Derponts, at 
that time Mafook of Malambo, who is represented on this 
plate, was the uncle of Tamme Gomma. But the lJuxuri- 
ous - - - - and polite manner with which Grandpré was 
received by the former, was very much contrasted with the 
poverty of the latter. 'lamme Gomma was a man of the 
middle age, tall and well formed, with an interesting and 
noble countenance, which resembled more that of an Arab, 
than of a Negro. This was the case with several of his re- 
tinue. He wore over his shoulders a riband with a fetishe 
of some inches in length and breadth, representing two 
figures in a sitting posture, each, of them holding a globe 
in their arms: they were tolerably well executed. Grand pré 
observes of these figures that they have European features, 
and the resemblance struck us immediately. They had high 
bare foreheads, aqualine noses, painted white, and bore 
some resemblance to the Egyptian, and in some parts to 
the Etruscan figures. Those of the better sort of people 
wore skins of a kind of tiger, but the rest wore simply 
skins of calf. All of them wore round their necks pieces 
of cord twisted from the hair of elephants’ tails, and above 
the wrist a thick ring of iron or copper, with figures, the 
execution of which proved that they have some skill in 
working these metals. Most of them however wore rings 
of iron. They told us, that both these metals were abund- 
ant in the interior, but that the country produced no gold 
dust. We showed them samples of beads and small 
looking- glasses, &c. in order to be informed of what value 
they considered them to be, which, as merchants, they un- 
