CHAPTER VIII. 
A VISIT TO BANZA CHISALLA. 
OMA, at the head of the Congo delta, 
the great depot between the interior 
and the coast, owes its existence wholly 
to 
“ the cruel trade 
Which spoils unhappy Afric of her sons.” 
Father Merolla (1682), who visited it from 
“ Angoij,” our “ Cabinda,” speaks of it as a pretty 
large island, tributary to the Mani-Congo, ex¬ 
tremely populous, well supplied with provisions, 
and outlaid by islets belonging to the Count of 
Sonho. Tuckey’s Embomma was an inland banza 
or town, and the site of the factories was called 
Market Point; the Expedition map and the hydro- 
graphic chart term it Loombee, the latter being 
properly the name of a large quitanda (market) 
lying two miles to the north-west. Early in the 
present century it is described as a village of a 
