228 Life at Banza Nokki . 
cymbals called chingufu : M. Valdez (ii. 221 et 
passim ), writes “ Clincufo,” which he has taken 
from a misprint in Monteiro and Gamitto. The 
chingufu of East Africa is a hollow box performed 
upon with a drum-stick of caoutchouc. The pipes 
are wooden tubes with sundry holes and a bridge 
below the mouth-piece ; they are played over edge 
like our flutes. The “ hellish harmonies ” mostly 
result from an improvised band, one strumming the 
guitar, another clapping the sticks, and the third 
beating the bell-shaped irons that act as castanets. 
The language of the people on and near the 
Congo River is called “ Fiote,” a term used by old 
travellers to denote a black man as opposed to 
Mundele (white), and also applied to things, as 
Bondehote or black baft. James Barbot (p. 512) 
gives specimens of some thirty-three words and 
the numerals in the “ Angoy language, spoken at 
Cabinde,” which proves to be that of the River. 
Of these many are erroneous: for instance, “ nova,” 
to sleep (ku-nua); “ sursu,” a hen (nsusu) : while 
“ fina,” scarlet; “ bayeta,” baize ; and “ fumu,” to¬ 
bacco, are corrupted Portuguese. A young lad, 
“muleche” (moleque), Father Merolla’s “molecchas, 
a general name among the negroes,” for which 
Douville prefers “ moleke” (masc.) and “molecka” 
(fern.), is applied only to a slave, and in this sense 
it has extended west of the Atlantic. In the 
numerals, “wale” (2) should be “kwale,” “quina” (4) 
