Note 138 — THE STRANGE ADVENTURES OF ANDREW BATTELL OF LEIGH IN ESSEX, SENT BY THE PORTUGALS PRISONER TO ANGOLA, WHO LIVED THERE, AND IN THE ADJOINING REGIONS, NEAR EIGHTEEN YEARS.
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No logwood is found in Loango, and Purchas points out in a note (post, p. 82), that Battell’s dyewood must be Red Sanders (Pterocarpus tinctorius), the tacula of Angola, and identical with the tavila of D. Lopez (Ficalho, Plantas uteis, p. 207). Pechuel-Loesche (Loango Exp., vol. iii, p. 190), on the other hand, states that the dye known as tacula is camwood (Baphia nitida, Afz.), and Bentley (Dict. of the Kongo Language), who calls the dye nkula, is of the same opinion. Another red dye is obtained from the Njilla sonde (Pterocarpus erinaceus, Poir.).