or ANNABONA, a small island of Africa, on the west coast of Loango. It lies in Long. 5. 35. 7. E. and Lat. 1. 24. 3. S.; 190 miles west of Cape Lopez, is about four miles in length, and two in breadth, and rises abruptly from an unfathomable depth to the height of 3000 feet above the level of the sea. It is a beautiful island, exhibiting a succession of little valleys, with fine outlines of steep mountains richly clothed with wood, while every ledge and crevice Annuities gives nourishment to a rich luxuriance of vegetation, and the precipitous surfaces are tinged with every variety of colour. Vessels touch at Annobon for refreshments, of which the supply is abundant, including swine, sheep, goats, fowls, bananas, plantains, cassada, sweet potatoes, pines, and tamarinds. Guinea-fowl, large and finely flavoured, are particularly plentiful. Cassada, cotton, and sugar-cane are cultivated with care and success. The population amounts to about 3000, mostly collected in a large village near the north-east point of the island, off which is the only tolerably safe roadstead for shipping. The people are negroes, perfectly harmless, and with some vague idolatrous belief in the Roman Catholic religion. In their dealings with strangers they are not strictly honest, but as much so as can reasonably be expected. Their houses are small and rudely constructed. Supplies are procured from them more readily by barter than for money. Cheap tawdry kerchiefs, old clothes, muskets, fish-hooks, cutlery, trinkets, rum, and tobacco, are the objects chiefly coveted. Their government was a sort of oligarchy vested in five persons, who assumed office by turns, strangely enough measuring its tenure by the arrival of ships, each magistracy lasting during the period of the arrival of ten. The island received its name from its having been discovered by the Portuguese on New-year's day, A.D. 1473. In 1778 it came into the possession of Spain; and in 1827 it was taken possession of by the English, but was restored to Spain in 1843.

ANNONÉ Prefectus, an extraordinary magistrate at Rome, whose business it was to prevent a scarcity of provisions, and to regulate the price, weight, and fineness of bread.