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⁵ Tradition attests Kuba trade with the Lower Kasai by the eighteenth century. Moreover an examination of market terminology reveals that the Kwilu—Kwango area was linked with the Stanley Pool region and formerly probably with Okanga on the lower Kwango. F. Bontinck, Histoire du royaume du Congo (c. 1624) (Etudes d'histoire africaine IV) (1972), 133, translates a text, stating that a Rafael de Castro went 200 miles beyond Okanga around 1620. From comparative distances in the same text this would have brought him perhaps as far as the Loango river and certainly into the territory from where the last Kuba dynasty originated around 1625. Such a long trip could likely only have been accomplished along an existing trade route.

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⁷ Cf. note 4, p. 318. Sheppard noted this already.

⁸ Hence a weighty reason for rejecting migration routes proposed by E. Boelaert, Kuba en Mongo (ms.) and G. Van Der Kerken, L'ethnie mongo, Bruxelles 1944 (Mem. in 8⁰; Institut Royal Colonial Beige. Section des sciences morales et politiques, XIII, 2 vols.)

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¹² Cf. note 9, p. 320.