THE CONGO IN 1863. 
115 
is 220 miles in extent, and is called by the natives a 
sea.” If the Tanganyika shall be found to connect with 
the Lnta Nzige or Mwutan Lake, this passage will be 
found wonderfully truthful. The Tanganyika’s southern 
versant is now placed in south latitude 8° 46' 54", or in 
round numbers 9°, and the other figures are nearly as 
GRASS APRON. 
correct. James Barbot causes these Anzikos to wander 
“ almost through all Africa,” from Nubia to the Congo, 
like negro Bedawin or Scythians ; the common food 
was man’s’ flesh fattened for the market and eaten by 
the relatives, even of those who died diseased. Their 
“ capital,” Monsol, was built by D’Anville, close to the 
equator in the very centre of Africa (east longitude 
I 2 
