312 Ancient Africana. 



molopa spelt Monomotapa in the map which 

 embraced the whole of the territory now known as 

 Mashonaland. As is pointed out by Mr. Bent in his 

 "Eiiined Cities of Mashonaland/' it was so named 

 by the early Portuguese explorers after Mono- 

 matapa, the dynastic name of the paramount chief. 

 In this country, we are told, there were " reported 

 to be three thousand mines of gold/' and we find 

 Zimbaos the present Zimbabwe duly marked on 

 the map; but Speed, doubtless from want of space, 

 does not give us any of the wonderful stories of 

 the wealth of the Emperor extant among the early 

 Portuguese travellers, contenting himself with the 

 remark that " their King is served in great pompe, 

 and hath a guard of two hundred mastives." 



Caf raria seems to have been practically unknown, 

 as our author has literally nothing to say of it, 

 except that its people lived (< in the Woods without 

 Lawes like brutes/' and that " here stands the 

 Cape of good Hope/' about which, he adds, the sea 

 is always rough and dangerous. " It hath beene 

 especially so for the Spaniard. It is their owne 

 note, in somuch, that one was very angry with God, 

 that he suffered the English Heretickes to pass it 

 so easily over, and not to give his good Catholikes 

 the like speed." 



And, finally, Manicongo, whose inhabitants are 

 very vaguely said to be in some part Christian, but 

 in "other by-Provinces Anthropophagi, and have 

 shambles of mans flesh, as we have for meate." 

 They can hardly have been pleasant neighbours 



