SALT — QUTLOA. 
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Behind the Makooa, and upwards of forty days' 
journey in the interior, are situated the Monjou, 
from whom seems derived the appellation of the 
empire of Monomuji, which, in our old maps, fills 
all the interior of this part of Africa. The Mon- 
jou are negroes of the ugliest description, of a 
deep shining black, with high cheek-bones, thick 
lips, and small knots of woolly hair on their heads. 
Their weapons are chiefly bows and arrows, which 
they manage with considerable skill. They have 
a mode of exciting flame by rubbing two pieces 
of hard wood against each other, similar to that 
described by Mr Bruce, as practised by a tribe of 
Nuba near Sennaar. They appeared milder than 
the Makooa, though this might arise from none 
of their nation being seen except traders. 
In 1812 Quiloa was visited by Captain Beaver.^ 
This ancient capital of Eastern Africa retained no 
traces of its former splendour. It was reduced 
to a number of scattered huts, and the export of 
slaves had fallen from ten thousand to a few hun- 
dreds. The Imaum of Muskat maintains here a 
fort mounting three guns, and defended by half a 
dozen soldiers, with which he keeps the king of 
Quiloa in awe, and levies a considerable tribute. 
By a similar display of force, he holds in subjec- 
* Quarterly Review, July 1815, 
