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Life at Banza Nokki. 
a deity supremely good, who permits evil without 
participating in it. But the dualism of moral light 
and darkness, noticed by all travellers, 1 is a bond 
fide existence with Africans, and the missionaries 
converted the Angolan “ Cariapemba” into the 
Aryo-Semitic Devil. 
Zambi is the Anyambia of the Gaboon country, 
a vox et preeterea nihil. Dr. Livingstone (“ First 
Expedition,” p. 641), finds the word general 
amongst the Balonda, or people of Lunda : with 
the “ Cazembes ” the word is “ Pambi,” or “ Liza,” 
and “ O Muata Cazembe ” (p. 297) mentions the 
proverb, “ Ao Pambi e ao Mambi (the King) nada 
iguala.” In the “ Vocabulario da lingua Cafrial ” 
we see (p. 469) that “ Murungo ” means God 
or thunder. It is the rudimental idea of the 
great Zeus, which the Greeks worked out, the 
God of A Ether, the eternal, omnipotent, and omni¬ 
scient, “ who was, who is, and who is to come,” 
the U nknown and U nknowable, concerning whom 
St. Paul quoted Aristaeus on Mars’ Hill. But the 
African brain naturally confused it with a some¬ 
thing gross and material: thus Nzambi-a- Npungu 
is especially the lightning god. Cariambemba is, 
properly, Kadi Mpemba or Ntangwa, the being 
that slays mankind : Merolla describes it as an 
1 Tuckey (p. 214), and the General Observations prefixed 
to the Diaries. 
