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Burton, Richard Francis, Sir, 1821-1890

"Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 1"

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, Illustration VI. (p. 71), and XLIII. (p.
297).


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