The Strange Adventures of Andrew Battell, of Leigh, in Angola and the Adjoining RegionsBattell, Andrew
History
The Strange Adventures of Andrew Battell, of Leigh, in Angola and the Adjoining Regions
Battell, Andrew
Angola -- Discovery and exploration; Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Discovery and exploration
[393] Cavazzi, pp. 9, 621. The Queen was branded as a slave (a practice
learnt from the Portuguese; see Marcador in the Index), and died of
grief; but her daughter was received into favour, and was baptized in
1667.
[394] Lopes de Lima (_Ensaio_, vol. iii, _parte segundo_), is very
severe upon Cavazzi, whom he charges with having “falsified” history,
but does nothing himself to throw light upon the vexed question of the
names of the kings of Matamba and Ndongo. The following is a summary of
Cavazzi’s very copious information (where Antonio of Gaeta gives
different names, these are added within brackets). _Ngola_, the smith,
or _musuri_ (_Ngola Bumbumbula_), was the founder of the kingdom of
Ndongo. Having no sons, he was succeeded by his daughter, _Nzunda ria
ngola_, and then by another daughter, _Tumba ria ngola_, who married a
_Ngola kiluanji kia Samba_, a great warrior. Their son, _Ngola
kiluanji_, was succeeded by _Ndambi ngola_. Then followed _Ngola
kiluanji kia ndambi_, another great warrior, who advanced to within ten
leagues of the sea, and planted a _nzanda_ tree (_Insandeira_), on the
northern bank of the Kwanza, a short distance above Tombo, to mark the
furthest point reached by his conquering hosts. _Nzinga ngola kilombo
kia kasende_ (_Ngola kiluanji_) followed next; then came _Mbandi ngola
kiluanji_, the father, and _Ngola mbandi_, the brother, of the famous
Queen _Nzinga (Jinga) mbandi ngola_ (born 1582, acceded 1627, died
1663), since whose day the upper part of Ndongo, including Matamba; has
been known as Nzinga or Ginga. The great queen was succeeded by her
sister, _D. Barbara da Silva_, who married _D. Antonio Carrasco nzinga a
mina_ (she died 1666). Then followed in succession _D. João Guterres
Ngola kanini_, _D. Francisco Guterres Ngola kanini_ (1680-81), and _D.
Victoria_, whom Cadornega calls _Veronica_.
According to Lopez de Lima, it was a Jaga of Matamba, _Ngola a nzinga_,
who conquered Ndongo, and gave it as an appanage to his son, _Ngola
mbandi_. It was this _Ngola mbandi_ who invited the Portuguese in 1556,
and a son of his, bearing the same name or title, who received Dias in
1560.
Cadornega (Paiva Manso, p. 281) gives the following names as the “Kings
of Angola” since the arrival of the Portuguese: Ngola a kiluanji, Ngola
mbandi, Ngola a kiluanji II, Queen Nzinga D. Anna de Sousa, D. Antonio
Carrasco Nzinga a mina, D. Barbara da Silva, his wife; D. João Guterres
Ngola kanini, D. Luis, D. Francisco Guterres Ngola kanini, D. Veronica,
the wife of D. Francisco.
[395] Called Ngola mbandi by Lopes de Lima.
[396] Paiva Manso, p. 112.
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