I inquired vainly about the Anzicos, Anzichi, Anzigui, Anzigi, or Anziki, whose king, Makoko, the ruler of thirteen kingdoms, was placed by Dapper north-west of Monemugi (Unyamwezi), and whom Pigafetta (p. 79) located close to the Congo, and near his northern Lake.  “It is true that there are two lakes, not, however, lying east and west (Ptolemy’s system), but north and south of each other, and about 400 miles asunder.  The first is in south latitude 12deg..  The Nile, issuing from it, does not, according to Odoardo (Duarte Lopez), sink in the earth nor conceal itself, but, after flowing northwards, it enters the second lake, which is 220 miles in extent, and is called by the natives a sea.”  If the Tanganyika shall be found to connect with the Luta Nzige or Mwutan Lake, this passage will be found wonderfully truthful.  The Tanganyika’s southern versant is now placed in south latitude 8deg. 46’ 54”, or in round numbers 9deg., and the other figures are nearly as correct.  James Barbot causes these Anzikos to wander “almost through all Africa,” from Nubia to the Congo, like negro Bedawin or Scythians; the common food was man’s flesh fattened for the market and eaten by the relatives, even of those who died diseased.  Their “capital,” Monsol, was built by D’Anville, close to the equator in the very centre of Africa (east longitude Greenwich, 26deg. 20’) hard by Douville’s “Yanvo;” and the “Opener of Inner Africa in 1852” (pp. 3, 4, 69), with equal correctness, caused them to “occupy the hills opposite to Sundi, and extending downwards to Emboma below the Falls.”

Mr. Cooley ("Ocean Highways,” June, 1873), now explains the word as A-nzi-co, “people not of the country,” barbarians, bushmen.  This kind of information, derived from a superficial knowledge of an Angolan vocabulary, is peculiarly valueless.  I doubt that a negative can thus be suffixed to a genitive.  The name may simply have been A-nziko (man) of the back-settlement.  In 1832, Mr. Cooley writes:  “the nation of the Anziko (or Ngeco):”  in 1845, “the Anziki, north of Congo:”  in 1852, “the Micoco or king of the Anziko”—­und so weiter.  What can we make of this geographical Proteus?  The first Congo Expedition who covered all the ground where the Creator of the Great Central Sea places the Anzikos, never heard of them—­nor will the second.

Not being then so well convinced of the nonexistence of the Giaghi, Giagas, Gagas, or Jagas as a nation, I inquired as vainly for those terrible cannibals who had gone the way of all the Anzikos.  According to Lopez, Battel, Merolla, and others, they “consider human flesh as the most delicious food, and goblets of warm blood as the most exquisite beverage.”  This act on the part of savage warriors might have been a show of mere bravado.  But I cannot agree with the editor of Tuckey’s “Narrative,” “From the character and disposition of the native African, it may fairly be doubted whether, throughout the whole of this great continent, a negro cannibal