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AFRICA AND ITS EXPLORATION. 
me of the “ heavenly muse ” in the Lake Regions of 
Central Africa. 
The neighbours of the Mundongos are the Mubangos, 
the Muyanji (Muyanzi ?), and the Mijolo, by some 
called Mijere. Possibly Tuckey alludes to the Mijolos 
when he tells us (p. 141), that the “Mandingo” slave 
whom he bought on the Upper River, called his country 
“ M’intolo.” I have seen specimens of the three, who 
are so similar in appearance that a stranger distinguishes 
them only by the tattoo. No. 1 gashes a line from the 
root of the hair to the commissure of the nose : No. 2 
has a patch of cuts, five in length and three in depth, 
extending from the bend of the eye-brow across the 
zygomata to the ear ; and No. 3 wears cuts across the 
forehead. I was shown a sword belonging to the 
Mijolo : all declared that it is of native make ; yet it 
irresistibly suggested the old two-handed weapon of 
Europe, preserved by the Bedawin and the Eastern 
Arabs, who now mostly derive it from Sollingen. The 
long, straight, flexible, and double-edged blade is neatly 
mounted by the tang in a handle with a pommel, or 
terminating knob, of ivory ; others prefer wood. The 
guard is very peculiar, a thin bar of iron springing 
from the junction of blade and grip, forming an open 
oval below, and prolonged upwards and downwards in 
two branches parallel with the handle, and protecting 
the hand. They dance, brandishing this weapon, ac- 
cording to the slaves, in the presence of their princes. 
I inquired vainly about the Anzicos, Anzichi, 
Anzigui, Anzigi, or Anziki, whose king, Makoko, the 
ruler of thirteen kingdoms, was placed by Dapper 
north-west of Monemugi (Unyamwezi), and whom 
Pigafetta (p. 79) located close to the Congo, and near 
his northern Lake. “It is true that there are two 
lakes, not, however, lying east and west (Ptolemy’s 
system), but north and south of each other, and about 
400 miles asunder. The first is in south latitude 12°. 
The Nile, issuing from it, does not, according to Odoardo 
(Duarte Lopez), sink in the earth nor conceal itself, but, 
after flowing northwards, it enters the second lake, which 
