mpongo

Updated: May 21, 2025

I have heard of this upright-walking Mpongo at Loango and other places on the west coast of Africa, where the Njina is familiarly spoken of, and it is not, methinks, impossible, that an ape even larger than the gorilla may yet be found. Amongst these animals he evidently includes the chimpanzee, as may be seen by his reference to the Royal Exchange, London.

Sir Richard Francis Burton - Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 1