Note 155 — 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.

Mr. Dennett informs me that the underground speaking fetish in Loango is at the present time called Boio, and is found at Chilunga. He suggests that Ngumbiri may be a river spirit, or Nkishi from the country north of Mayumba. Dr. Bastian paid a visit to the holy place of the underground oracle of Ngoio near Moanda, known as Mbunzi, which only speaks on the accession of a king, whom he instructs as to his royal duties (Die Deutsche Expedition, vol. i, p. 85, 223).