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

Note 69 — 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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Ngongo (plural Jingongo), in Kimbundu, means twin, and hence Ngong’e, a double bell, such as is described by Monteiro (Angola, vol. i, p. 203); in Lunda it is called rubembe (Carvalho, Exp. Port., Ethnographia, p. 369). See also note, p. 80.

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