MATACA, or MANTACA, a commodious bay in America, on the north coast of the island of Cuba. Here the galleons usually come to take in fresh water
Mataman in their return to Spain. It is 35 miles from the Havannah. W. Long. 85. 6. N. Lat. 25. 0.
Matching. MATAMAN, a country of Africa, bounded by Benguela on the north, by Monomotopa on the east, by Cafaria on the south, and by the Atlantic Ocean on the west. There is no town in it, and the inhabitants live in miserable huts, it being a desert country, and but little visited by the Europeans.