Crossword-Solution: BATANGA 7 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 10

Upon the sea-board dwell the Banôkô (Banaka), Bapuka, and Batanga; the Kombe, the Benga and Mbiko, or people about Corisco; the Shekyani, who extend far into the interior, the Urungu and Aloa, clans of Cape Lopez; the Nkommi, Commi, Camma or Cama, and the Mayumba races beyond the southern frontier.

The language is used by other tribes holding the coast northward for a hundred miles or more, and probably by the inner people extending in a northerly direction from Corisco Bay: the same, with certain modifications, is also spoken at São Bento, Batanga, and perhaps as far north as the Camarones River.

The town of Batanga, on the west coast of Africa, had been bombarded, sacked, and burnt for a very trifling outrage; and I succeeded in inducing Lord Northbrook to telegraph for further information.

The _Banaka_ (or _Batanga_), the _Panwi_, and the _Mpoongwe_ take us from the Gaboon to Loango; forming a transition from the true Negroes to the Kaffres.

Johnston[284] divides the numerous local tribes into two groups, the aborigines, such as the _Ba-Yong_, _Ba-Long_, _Ba-Sa_, _Abo_ and _Wuri_; and the later intruders--_Ba-Kundu_, _Ba-Kwiri_, _Dwala_, "_Great Batanga_" and _Ibea_--chiefly from the east and south-east.