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voyage of Grand pr6, it was found that Tatu Derponts, at 

 that time Mafook of Malanibo, who is represented on this 

 plate, was the uncle of Tanime Gomma. But the luxuri- 

 ous and polite manner with which Grandpre was 



received by the ibrmer, Avas very much contrasted with the 

 poverty of the latter. Tamme 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. Grandpre 

 observes of these figures that they have European features, 

 and the resemblance struck us immediately. They had high 

 bare foreheads, aqualine noses, painted Avhite, 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- 



