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AFRICA AND ITS EXPLORATION. 
(the river) ; “ rua ” of “ lua ” (luna), and so forth. For 
to-morrow you must use “ cedo ” as “ manhaa ” would 
not be understood, and the prolixity of the native lan- 
guage is transferred to the foreign idiom. For instance, 
if you ask, “ What do you call this thing?” the para- 
phrase to be intelligible would be, “ The white man calls 
this thing so-and-so ; what does the Fiote call this 
thins; ? ” sixteen words for six. I have elsewhere re- 
marked how Englishmen make themselves unintelligible 
by transferring to Hindostani and other Asiatic tongues 
the conciseness of their own idiom, in which as much is 
understood as is expressed. We can well understand 
the outraged feelings with which poor Father Cannecattim 
heard his sermons travestied by the Abundo negroes 
do Paiz or linguists, the effect of which was to make 
him compose his laborious dictionary in Angolan, Latin, 
and Portuguese. His wrath in reflecting upon “ estos 
homems on estos brutos ” drives the ecclesiastic to 
imitate the ill-conditioned layman who habitually ad- 
dresses his slave as “0 bruto ! 0 burro ! 0 biclio ! 
0 diabo ! ” when he does not apply the more injurious 
native terms as “ Konongwako ” and “ Vendengwahdi.” 
It is only fair to confess that no race is harsher in its 
language and manners to its black brethren,” than the 
liberated Africans of the English settlements. 
At Banza Nokki I saw the first specimen of a Mundongo 
slave girl. The tribe is confounded with the Madingo 
(Mandenga) Moslems by the author of the “ Introduction 
to Tuckey’s Journey” (p. lxxxi.) ; by Tuckey (p. 141 ), 
who also calls them Mandonzo (p. 135 ), and by Prof. 
Smith (p. 315 ) ; but not by the accurate Marsden 
(p. 389 ). She described her tribe as living inland to 
the east and north-east of the Congo peoples, distant 
two moons — a detail, of course, not to be depended 
upon. I afterwards met many of these “ captives,” who 
declared that they had been sold after defeats : a fine, 
tall race, one is equal to two Congo men, and the bold- 
ness of demeanour in both sexes distinguishes them 
from other serviles. Apparently under this name there 
are several tribes inhabiting lands of various alevations ; 
