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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.