The Strange Adventures of Andrew Battell, of Leigh, in Angola and the Adjoining RegionsBattell, Andrew
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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
[413] This place is said to be eighty leagues from Masanganu, a gross
exaggeration. Vicente José, who was the commander of Duque de Bragança
in 1848, mentions a Ngolema Aquitamboa among the chiefs of Haire da cima
(_An. do Conselho ultram._, vol. ii, p. 123).
[414] Garcia Mendes mentions the Kindas as if they were a tribe. To me
they seem to be the people of the Jaga Kinda (Chinda of the Italian
Capuchins), one of the chiefs killed by the famous Queen Nzinga. See
Cavazzi, p. 636, and Antonio de Gaeta’s narrative in _La maravigliosa
conversione delle Regina Singa escritta dal. P. F. Francesco Maria Gioia
da Napoli_. Naples, 1669, p. 233. Emilio, a son of Count Laudati, was
born in 1615; he lived a few years as a knight of Malta, and then
entered a monastery of Capuchins, assuming the name of Antonio of Gaeta.
He landed at Luandu in November, 1650, and died there, after an active
life as a missionary, in July, 1662.
[415] Called Kakalele in the _Catalogo_.
[416] Douville, _Voyage au Congo_, Paris, 1832, vol. ii, p. 375;
Bowdich, _On the Bunda Language_, p. 138, note 2.
[417] See note, p. 84.
[418] _Breve Relação da embaixada_, etc., Lisbon, 1565. Reprint of 1875,
p. 98.
[419] It will be remembered that Battell, p. 25, writes Gaga as an
alternative form for Jaga. May Agau stand for Agaga, the Jagas
collectively?
[420] _Relacão anuel_, 1602-3. Lisbon, 1605.
[421] Ginde (pronounced Jinde) may be derived from _njinda_, the meaning
of which is fury, hostility.
[422] See p. 83.
[423] _Expedição Portuguesa: Ethnographia_, p. 56.
[424] _Expedição a Cassange_, Lisbon, 1854.
[425] Perhaps Manuel Cerveira Pereira, who founded the Presidio of
Kambambe in 1604. The first DON Manuel, however, is D. Manuel Pereira
Forjaz (1607-11). But as the Jaga offered to fight Queen Nzinga, who
only acceded in 1627, this Don Manuel may have been D. Manuel Pereira
Coutinho (1630-34).
[426] A “feira” was established at Lukamba, near Mbaka, in 1623. The
Kamueji is perhaps the Fumeji of Capello and Ivens.
[427] The list of Neves, p. 108, begins with Kinguri kia bangala, who
was succeeded by Kasanje kaimba, Kasanje kakulachinga, Kakilombo,
Ngonga-nbande, etc.
[428] Capello and Ivens, _Benguella to Iacca_, vol. i, p. 239, include
Mahungo and Kambolo among the family of Ngongo, and Mbumba among that of
Kulachinga.
[429] _Reisen in Süd-Afrika_, Pest, 1869, p. 264.
[430] From _Mpakasa_, a buffalo, and the meaning of the word is
therefore originally “buffalo-hunter,” but it was subsequently applied
to natives employed by government, as soldiers, etc. Capello and Ivens,
_From Benguella to the Yacca_, vol. ii, p. 215, deny that they ever
formed a secret society for the suppression of cannibalism.
[431] _Kichile_, transgression.
[432] See Cavazzi, pp. 182-205.
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