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them to “ occupy the hills opposite to Sundi, and ex¬ 
tending downwards to Emboma below the Falls. ,, 
Mr. Cooley (“Ocean Highways/’ June, 1873), 
now explains the word as A-nzi-co, “ people not 
of the country,” barbarians, bushmen. This 
kind of information, derived from a superficial 
knowledge of an Angolan vocabulary, is pecu¬ 
liarly valueless. I doubt that a negative can 
thus be suffixed to a genitive. The name may 
simply have been A-nziko (man) of the back-settle¬ 
ment. In 1832, Mr. Cooley writes: “the nation 
of the Anziko (or Ngeco) in 1845, “the Anziki, 
north of Congo:” in 1852, “the Micoco or king 
of the Anziko ”—und so weiter. What can we make 
of this geographical Proteus ? The first Congo 
Expedition who covered all the ground where the 
Creator of the Great Central Sea places the An- 
zikos, never heard of them—nor will the second. 
Not being then so well convinced of the non¬ 
existence of the Giaghi, Giagas, Gagas, or Jagas 
as a nation, I inquired as vainly for those terrible 
cannibals who had gone the way of all the Anzi- 
kos. According to Lopez, Battel, Merolla, and 
others, they “ consider human flesh as the most 
delicious food, and goblets of warm blood as the 
most exquisite beverage.” This act on the 
part of savage warriors might have been a 
show of mere bravado. But I cannot agree with 
the editor of Tuckey’s “ Narrative, ,J> “From the 
