The Strange Adventures of Andrew Battell, of Leigh, in Angola and the Adjoining Regions

Note 201 — 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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Wandu (of Congo) is the mbarazi of the Swahili, the Cajanus indicus of botanists. It is grown all over Africa, and Welwitsch considers it indigenous. In Angola a variety is known as nsonje (Ficalho, p. 143; Burton, Two Trips to Gorilla Island, vol. ii, p. 119).

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