mwani-pongo

Updated: May 11, 2025

At the confluence, tree- dots, tipping the watery marge, denoted what Barbot calls the "Pongo Islands." It was so called because held by the Mwani-pongo, who was to this region what the Mwani- congo was farther south. The palace was large but very mean, a shell of woven reeds roofed with banana leaves: the people, then mere savages, called their St.

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