350 GENERAL OBSERVATIONS. 
he could collect, very likely: the character of the negro 
having hitherto been every where stamped with mildness, 
simplicity, and benignity of disposition. 
Face oF THE CounTRY—SOIL, CLIMATE, AND PRo- 
pucrions. THe, country named Congo, of which we find 
so much written in collections of Voyages and Travels, ap- 
pears to be an undefined tract of territory, hemmed in be- 
tween Loango on the north, and Angola on the south ; but 
to what extent it stretches inland, it would be difficult to 
determine ; and depends most probably on the state of war 
or peace with the contiguous tribes. All that seems to be 
known at present is, that the country is partitioned out into 
a multitude of petty states or Chenooships, held as a kind 
of fiefs under some real or imaginary personage living 
in the interior, nobody knows exactly where. Captain 
Tuckey could only learn that the paramount sovereign was 
named Blindy N’Congo, and resided at a banza named 
Congo, which was six days journey in the interior from the 
Tall Trees, where, by the account of the negroes, the Por- 
tuguese had an establishment, and where there were soldiers 
and white women. ‘This place is no doubt the St. Salva- 
dor of the Portuguese. These chiefs have improperly been 
called kings: their territories, it would seem, are small in 
extent, the present expedition having passed at least six of 
them in the line of the river; the last is that of Inga, be- 
yond which are what they call bush-men, or those dreadful 
cannibals whom Andrew Battel, Lopez, Merolla, and 
others, have denominated Jugas, or Giagas, ‘* who con- 
sider human flesh as the most delicious food, and gob- 
