The African sketch-book . he died in the Catholic faith, but in the coffin, at hisown request, certain fetishes and charms were placed; as,for instance, a girdle of beads, a sleeping mat, some hair-pins, armlets and trinkets of various kinds. It is strangethat such articles of ordinary life could be consecratedby an idle superstition. The name of this gentleman 294 AiVANGA [Book II was Antonio dAlmeida. He is said to have made agreat journey from San Paolo de Loanda to Cazembe,and thence to the Cape of Good Hope ; and a brief allu-sion to which will be found in the Annaes Maritimos cColoniaes,
The African sketch-book . he died in the Catholic faith, but in the coffin, at hisown request, certain fetishes and charms were placed; as,for instance, a girdle of beads, a sleeping mat, some hair-pins, armlets and trinkets of various kinds. It is strangethat such articles of ordinary life could be consecratedby an idle superstition. The name of this gentleman 294 AiVANGA [Book II was Antonio dAlmeida. He is said to have made agreat journey from San Paolo de Loanda to Cazembe,and thence to the Cape of Good Hope ; and a brief allu-sion to which will be found in the Annaes Maritimos cColoniaes, vol. xxi., but no account of his travels hasever been given to the world. He was certainly asuperior man, for I found upon his bookshelf not onlya well-thumbed Lusiad of Camoens, but also a Homer,a Virgil, and a Horace, all of which showed signs ofhaving been diligently used. I could find no manu-scripts of any kind ; but all over his books, on fly-leaf and margin, was everywhere scribbled one word—A nanga? ISLANDS <£<& lir Authorities are numerous-For the Senegal and Sa-hara, Cadamosto, Adan-son, Gol berry, For the Gambia,Mungo Park. For theBissagos, Beaver. Reli-gion. The Mahometanreligion is dominant, andspreading fast by meansof religious wars wagedby converted Mandin-goes against pagan-Man-dingoes, and also in theforest districts by Moslemtraders, who act as mis-sionaries. The Frenchhave most power. Country, even on the coast, for themost part open as low down as theCasemanehe; then the coast forest re-gion begins. Inliabitants. Jaloffs,Mandingoes, with scattered shepherd bands of Fou-las; on the coast, from Casemanehe to Sierra Leone,are many tribes of a low type, as the Feloops and,-i,arcieSjBaggas. Food. Rice, maize, and millet. Cattle plen-tiful Trade. Chiefly ground-nuts; also gum Sene-siEiUlAgal, hides, and beeswax. Wild coffee exported from , „ p^pthe Nunez. Palm oil begins with the forest region.
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