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

Note 58 — 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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Cacongo (recte Kikongo), according to Welwitsch, is the wood of Tarchonanthes camphoratus. It is hard, of a greyish olive colour, and has the perfume of camphor. Its powder is esteemed as a tonic (Ficalho, Plantas uteis, p. 206).

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