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ovcr-ran like a torrent the whole coaft as far as Benguela ; 
that, being weakened by numerous battles, and unable 
to force the defiles in order to return to Sierra Leona, 
they arrived on the borders of Monomotapa, where being 
defeated, they were forced to remain in the^ provinces of 
Anfiko. Be this as it will, the Aiifikans yield not in the 
lead to the Giagas in fiercenefs and barbarity. They are 
cannibals, who try the courage of their prifone.rs of war 
by (hooting at them as at marks, directing their arrows 
above or around their heads ; and whoever difcovers the 
lead: figns of fear, is immediately devoured. Thole who 
appear intrepid and refolute, have their nofes and ears 
bored, and two fore-teeth of the upper jaw drawn. They 
are then improved in brutality, by accuftoming them to 
tire moft horrid cruelties. 
The Anfikans are tyell-proportioned and ftrong; wan¬ 
dering about from plape to place, without either fowing 
or reaping. They are dreaded for their extreme bruta¬ 
lity, and never traded with by the Europeans. Their lan¬ 
guage is barbarous, and difficult to be learned, even by 
the inhabitants of Congo. The moft diftinguiflied among 
them wear red and black caps of Portuguefe velvet: the 
lower ranks go naked from the waift upwards; and anoint 
their bodies with a compofition of pounded white fandal- 
tvood and palm-oil. Their arms are battle-axes, and fmall 
but very ftrong bows, adorned with ferpents (kins. Their 
fixings are made of fupple and tender ftioots of trees, that 
will not break, and their arrows of hard and light wood. 
Thefe people, who kill birds flying, fhoot with fuch fur- 
prifing fwiftnefs, that they are faid to difcharge twenty- 
eight arrows from the bow before the firft falls to the 
ground. With equal dexterity they manage their battle- 
axes. The current money in this country is the zimbis or 
fit ell, which is fiftted for, and pafies among feveral African 
nations. They worfhip the fun as their chief deity ; whom 
they reprefent by the figure of a man, and the moon by 
that of a woman. They have alfo an infinite number of 
inferior deities, each individual having a particular idol 
whom he addrdTes on certain occalions. 
AN'SLO, a fea-port town of Norway, in the province of 
Aggerhuys, with a biftiop’s fee. The Jupreme court of 
juftice is held here for Norway. It is feated on a bay of 
the fame name. Lat. 50. 24. N. Ion. 16. 14. E. 
AN'SON (George), a gentleman whofe merit and good 
fortune, as a naval commander, exalted him to the rank of 
nobility. He was the fon of William Anfon, Efq. of 
Huckborough, in Staffordftiire ; and, (hewing air early in¬ 
clination for the fea, received a fuitable education. The 
firft command he enjoyed was that of the Weazle (loop in 
1722; but the moft memorable adtion of his life, and the 
foundation of his future good fortune, took place on his 
receiving the command of five (hips, a (loop, and two vic¬ 
tuallers, equipped to annoy the Spaniards in the South 
Seas, and to eo-operate with admiral Vernon acrofs the 
ifthmus of Darien ; an expedition the principal objedf of 
which failed by the unaccountable delay in fitting out. He 
failed, however, in Sept. 1740; doubled Cape Horn in a 
dangerous feafon ; loft moft of his men by the (curvy ; and 
with only one remaining (hip, the Centurion, crofted the 
great Pacific Ocean. If no confiderable national advantage 
refulted from this voyage, commodore Anfon made his 
own fortune, and enriched his furviving companions, by 
the capture of a rich galleon on her pafiage from Acapul¬ 
co to Manilla; with which he returned home round the 
Cape of Good Hope. If he was lucky in meeting this 
galleon, he was no lefs fortunate in efcapinga French fleet 
.then cruifing in the channel, by failing through it during 
a fog. He arrived at Spithead in June 1744. In a (hort 
time after his return, he was appointed rear-admiral of the 
blue, and one of the lords of the admiralty. In April 1745, 
lie was made rear-admiral of the white, and the following 
year vice-admiral of the blue ; at which time lie was cho- 
fen to reprefent the borough of Heydon in parliament. In 
1747, being on-board the Prince George of 90 guns, in 
company with admiral Warren, and twelve other (hips, he 
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intercepted, off Cape Finifterre, a powerful fleet bound 
from France to the Eaft and Weft Indies; when, by his 
valour and conduct, he again enriched himfelf and his of¬ 
ficers, and at the fame time (Lengthened the Britifli navy,, 
by taking fix men of war and four Eaft India.men, not on? 
of them efcaping. The French admiral, M. Jonquiere, on 
prefenting his fword to the conqueror, faid, Monjicur, vous 
avcz vaincu )’ Invincible , el la Gloirc vousfu.it ; “ Sir, you have 
conquered the Invincible, and Glory follows you ,'’ point¬ 
ing to the ftiips, named the Invincible and Glory, lie had ta¬ 
ken. For his, fignal fcrvices, he was created baron of So- 
berton in Hants. The fame year lie was appointed vice- 
admiral of the red ; and, on the death of Sir John Norris, 
was made vice-admiral of England. In 1748 he was made 
admiral of the blue : he was afterwards appointed firft lord 
of the admiralty, and was at length made admiral and com¬ 
mander in chief of his majefty’S fleet; in which rank he 
continued, with a very (Itert interval, until his death; and 
the laft fervice he performed was to convoy queen Char¬ 
lotte to England. He died in June 1762. No perform¬ 
ance ever met with a more favourable reception, than the 
account of Anfon’s voyage round the world. Though it 
is printed under the name of his chaplain, it was compoled 
under his lordfttip’s own infpedlion, and front the materials 
he himlelf furniftied, by the ingenious Mr. Benjamin 
Robins. 
AN'SPACH (the marquifate of), a fmall territory of 
Franconia, in Germany, bounded on the north by the bi- 
fhoprics of Wartfburg and Bamberg, which laft likewife 
lies to the weft; by the earldoms of Holach and Oeting, 
with the biftioprick of Aichftet, on the fouth ; and the pa¬ 
latinate of Bavaria and the territory of Nuremberg on the 
eaft. The country is fruitful, and interfpetfed with woods, 
which render it agreeable for hunting. Befides the city 
Anfpach, which is the capital, the chief towns are Kregliir, 
Swalbach, Kreilflieim, Rot, and WafTer-Truding. 
Anspach is a fmall but pretty town, very well built, 
and has feveral churches. It is walled round, but has no 
other fortifications. In the palace there is a remarkable 
cabinet of curiofities. It is feated on a river of the fame 
name, and belongs to the houfe of Brandenburg. Lat. 49’. 
14. N. long. 10. 42. E. 
ANSPESS A'DES, in the French armies, a kind of in¬ 
ferior officers in the foot, below the corporals, blit above 
the common centinels. There are ufually four or five of 
them in a company. 
ANSTRUTHER Eajler and Wefter, two royal boroughs 
of Scotland, fituated on the fouth-eaft coaft of the county 
of Fife, in lat. 56. 20. N. long. 2. 25. W. 
To AN'SWER, v. n. [The etymology is uncertain : the 
Saxons had andfwarian, but in another fenfe; the Dutch 
have antwoorden. ] To fpeak in. return to a queftion : 
Are we fuccour’d ? are the Moors remov’d ? 
Anfwer thefe queftions firft, and then a thoufand more. 
Anfwer them all together. Drydcn. 
To fpeak in oppofition.—No man was able to anfwer him a 
a word. Matfkcw, xxii. 46.—To be accountable for: with 
for. —Some men have finned in the principles of humanity, 
and nnift anfzuer for not being men. Brown. —To vindi¬ 
cate ; to give a juftificatory account of; with for .—The 
night, fo imprudently fixed for my laft, made little im- 
preftion on rnyfelf; but I cannot anfwer for my family. 
Swift. —To give an account.—How they have been fince 
received, and fo well improved, let tho(e anfwer either to 
God or man, who have been the authors and promoters of 
fuch wife council. Temple. —To correfpond to; to fuit with. 
■—As in water face anfwereth to face, fo the heart of man 
to man. Prov. xxvii. 19.—To be equivalent to ; to ftand for 
fomething elfe.—A feaft is made for laughter, and wine 
maketh merry : but money anfwerethdW things. Ecrl.x. 19. 
To fatisfy any claim or petition of right or juftice.—Zel- 
mane with rageful eyes bade him defend himfelf; for no 
lefs than his life would anfwer for it. Sidney .—To aft re, 
ciprocally: 
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