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visa on board the guard-ship “ L’Oise,” where a party 
of young Frenchmen were preparing for la chasse. A 
little higher up stream are two islets, Nenge Mbwendi, 
so called from its owner, and Nenge Sika, or the Isle of 
Gold. The Mpongwe all know this name for the precious 
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metal, and the Bakele appear to ignore it : curious to 
say. it is the Fante and Mandenga word, probably de- 
rived from the Arabic Sikkah, which gave rise to the 
Italian Zecca (mint) and Zecchino. It may have been 
introduced by the Laptots or Lascar sailors of the 
Senegal. M. du Chaillu (“ Second Expedition,” chap, iii.) 
mentions “ the island Nengue Shika ” on the Lower 
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