| Title: | Zimbi |
| Original Title: | Zimbi |
| Volume and Page: | Vol. 17 (1765), p. 714 |
| Author: | Unknown |
| Translator: | Kathryn Heintzman [Harvard University] |
| Subject terms: |
Modern history
Commerce
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| Citation (MLA): | "Zimbi." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Translated by Kathryn Heintzman. Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2019. Web. [fill in today's date in the form 18 Apr. 2009 and remove square brackets]. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0003.763>. Trans. of "Zimbi," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, vol. 17. Paris, 1765. |
| Citation (Chicago): | "Zimbi." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Translated by Kathryn Heintzman. Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0003.763 (accessed [fill in today's date in the form April 18, 2009 and remove square brackets]). Originally published as "Zimbi," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, 17:714 (Paris, 1765). |
Small shells that serve as everyday currency in the Kingdom of the Congo, as well as in a great number of other countries in Africa, along whose coasts they are found. We find a large quantity near an island that is opposite Luanda Saint Paolo; these are the most valued. These shells are a gold mine for the Portuguese, who hold the sole right to collect them, and that help them purchase from Africans their most precious merchandise.