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

Note 206 — 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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Lubámbu (in Kimbundu); luvambu (in Congoese) means a chain. Dr. Lacerda says that a Libambo was made of sufficient length to hold twelve slaves (The Lands of Cazembe, ed. by Burton, London; 1873, p. 18).

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