New York.
Harpers, 1856.
[FN#3] Barbot, book iv. chap. 9.
[FN#4] This word is the Muzungu of the Zanzibar coast, and
contracted to Utanga and even Tanga it is found useful in
expressing foreign wares; Utangani's devil-fire, for instance, is
a lucifer match.
[FN#5] "Abeokuta and the Camaroons Mountains," vol. ii. chap.
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 "illustration
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.
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