Note 71 — 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.

Tavale. Mr. Dennet suggests that tavale corresponds to the libala of Loango, a word derived from the Portuguese taboa (table), for the instrument of this name consists of a board supported by two sticks of wood, and kept in its place by wooden pegs driven into the ground. The player beats this board with his two index fingers. A. R. Neves, Mem. da Epedição a Cassange, p. 110, calls tabalha a drum, which is beaten to make known the death of a Jaga Cassange.