234 
Life at Banza Nokki . 
Mubangos, the Muyanji (Muyanzi ?), and the 
Mijolo, by some called Mijere. Possibly Tuckey 
alludes to the Mijolos when he tells us (p. 141), 
that the “ Mandingo ” slave whom he bought on the 
Upper River, called his country “ M’intolo.” I 
have seen specimens of the three, who are so 
similar in appearance that a stranger distinguishes 
them only by the tattoo. No. 1 gashes a line from 
the root of the hair to the commissure of the nose : 
No. 2 has a patch of cuts, five in length and three 
in depth, extending from the bend of the eye-brow 
across the zygomata to the ear, and No. 3 wears 
cuts across the forehead. I was shown a sword 
belonging to the Mijolo : all declared that it is of 
native make ; yet it irresistibly suggested the old 
two-handed weapon of Europe, preserved by 
the Bedawin and the Eastern Arabs, who now 
mostly derive it from Sollingen. The long, 
straight, flexible, and double-edged blade is 
neatly mounted by the tang in a handle with a 
pommel, or terminating knob, of ivory; others 
prefer wood. The guard is very peculiar, a thin 
bar of iron springing from the junction of blade 
and grip, forming an open oval below, and pro¬ 
longed upwards and downwards in two branches 
parallel with the handle, and protecting the hand. 
They dance, brandishing this weapon, according to 
the slaves, in the presence of their princes. 
I inquired vainly about the Anzicos, Anzichi, 
