The virtue of it as a febrifuge was taught to the mission fathers by the neophytes, and wise old dames of my acquaintance have worked astonishing cures with it and the succulent yerba mansa.

I remember very well when I came first upon a wet meadow of yerba mansa, not knowing its name or use.

Yet further up the coast, near Tanga, the Markgraf lies beached in shallow water, and the Reubens a wreck in Mansa Bay.

According to Jobson, Mensa, or Mansa, signifies a king in the Mandingo language.

E. SECTION X. Continuation of the Voyage from the Gambia to the river Kasa-Mansa, Cape Roxo, the rivers of St Ann and St Domingo, and the Rio Grande.

At this place Grynaeus calls him Batrinense; though he had named him rightly Bati-mansa before.

MANSA-SHIJ (Euphorbia ligularia).This plant is supposed by the natives of Bengal to be sacred to Mansa, the goddess of snakes, and is worshipped by them on certain days of the months of June, July, August, and September, during which those reptiles lay their eggs and breed their young.

MANSA-SHIJ (Euphorbia ligularia).This plant is supposed by the natives of Bengal to be sacred to Mansa, the goddess of snakes, and is worshipped by them on certain days of the months of June, July, August, and September, during which those reptiles lay their eggs and breed their young.

The festival of Arandhana, which is more especially observed by the lower orders of the people, is in honor of the Goddess Mansa.