11G A Fine A AND ITS EXPLORATION 
Greenwich, 26° 20') hard by Douville’s “ Yanvo ; ” and 
the “Opener of Inner Africa in 1852 ” (pp. 3, 4, 69), 
with equal correctness, caused them to “ occupy the 
hills opposite to Sundi, and extending downwards to 
Emboma below the Falls.” 
Mr. Cooley (“Ocean Highways,” June, 1873), now 
explains the word as A-nzi-co, “ people not of the 
country,” barbarians, bushmen. This kind of informa- 
tion, derived from a superficial knowledge of an 
Angolan vocabulary, is peculiarly valueless. I doubt 
that a negative can thus be suffixed to a genitive. The 
name may simply have been A-nziko (man) of the 
back-settlement. In 1832, Mr. Cooley writes : “ the 
nation of the Anziko (or Ngeco) : ” in 1845, “the 
Anziki, north of Congo:” in 1852, “the Micoco or 
king of the Anziko ” — unci so welter. What can we 
make of this geographical Proteus ? The first Congo 
Expedition who covered all the ground where the 
Creator of the Great Central Sea places the Anzikos, 
never heard of them — nor will the second. 
Not being then so well convinced of the non-existence 
of the Giaghi, Giagas, Gagas, or Jagas as a nation, I 
inquired as vainly for those terrible cannibals who had 
gone the way of all the Anzikos. According to Lopez, 
Battel, Merolla, and others, they “ consider human flesh 
as the most delicious food, and goblets of warm blood as 
the most exquisite beverage.” This act on the part of 
savage warriors might have been a show of mere 
bravado. But I cannot agree with the editor of 
Tuckey’s “ Narrative,” “ From the character and dis- 
position of the native African, it may fairly be doubted 
whether, throughout the whole of this great continent, 
a negro cannibal has any existence.” The year 1816 
was the Augustan age of outrageous negrophilism and 
equally extreme anti-Napoleonism. “ If a French 
general ” (Introduction, p. i) “ brutally seized the 
person and papers of a British naval officer, on his 
return from a voyage of discovery,” who, I would ask, 
plundered and destroyed the fine botanical collection 
made at risk of health and life, during fifteen months 
