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i. London: Tinsleys, 1863.
[FN#6] See "Zanzibar City, Island, and Coast," vol. i. chap. v sect. 2.
[FN#7] "Observations on the Fevers of the West African Coast."
New York: Jenkins, 1856. A more valuable work is the "Medical Topography, &c. of West Africa," by the late W.F. Daniell, M.D., 1849. Finally, Mr. Consul Hutchinson offered valuable suggestions in his work on the Niger Expedition of 1854-5 (Longmans, 1855, and republished in the "Traveller's Library").
[FN#8] M. du Chaillu ends his chapter i. with an "ill.u.s.tration of a Mpongwe woman," copied without acknowledgment from Mr.
Wilson's "Portrait of Yanawaz, a Gaboon Princess."
[FN#9] Everywhere on the lower river "hard dollars" are highly valued. The Spanish, formerly the favourite, and always worth 4s.
2d., command only a five-franc piece at Le Plateau; moreover, the "peseta," like the s.h.i.+lling, is taken as a franc.
[FN#10] "The British Jews," by the Rev. John Mills. London: Houlston and Stoneman, 1853.
[FN#11] For further details see "Zanzibar City, Island, and Coast," vol. ii. chap. iv.
[FN#12] See "Zanzibar City, Island, and Coast," vol. ii. chap.
v.
[FN#13] See part ii. chap. xxii. "Hans Stade," translated by Mr.
Albert Tootal, annotated by myself, and published by the Hakluyt Society, 1874.
[FN#14] Captain Boteler (v. ii. p. 374) gives a sketch of the "Fetiche dance, Cape Lopez," and an admirable description of Nda, who is mounted on stilts with a white mask, followed by negroes with chalked faces.
[FN#15] See "Zanzibar, City, Island, and Coast," vol. i. chap.
vii.
[FN#16] I have discussed this subject in my "Zanzibar," vol. i.
chap. xi.
[FN#17] M. du Chaillu's description of the animal is excellent (p. 282), and the people at once recognized the cut.
[FN#18] I did not see the Iboko, which M. du Chaillu (chap, xvi.) calls the "boco;" but, from the native description, I determined it to be the tsetse. He names the sandfly (chap, xvi.) "igoo-gouai." His "ibolai" or "mangrove fly" is "owole" in the singular, and "iwole" in the plural. The wasp, which he terms "eloway," is known to the Mpongwe people as "ewogoni."
[FN#19] "Introductory Remarks to a Vocabulary of the Yoruba Language." Seeleys, Fleet Street, London.
[FN#20] Hutchinson's "Ten Years' Wanderings, p. 319.
[FN#21] "Journal of the Ethnological Society," April, 1869.
[FN#22] "Zanzibar City, Island, and Coast," vol. ii. chap. ii.
[FN#23] See chap. ii.
[FN#24] First Edition, Ill.u.s.tration VI. (p. 71), and XLIII. (p.
297).
End of Volume 1 of Two Trips to Gorilla Land.
