[433] It is to him we owe several memoirs, referred to p. xviii. He did excellent service; but whilst João Velloria and others were made Knights of the Order of Christ, and received other more substantial rewards, his merits seem not to have been recognised. [434] This important MS., dated 1592, still awaits publication. [435] Lopes de Lima, _Ensaios_, p. 147. [436] However, there are two sides to this dispute, and it may well be doubted whether the natives would not have been better off under a Jesuit theocracy than they were under an utterly corrupt body of civil officials. See P. Guerreiro, _Relação anual de_ 1605, p. 625, and Lopes de Lima, p. xviii. [437] Erroneously called Adenda by most authors. Battell is the first to give the correct name. [438] Garcia Mendes, p. 24. [439] They were “converts” from the Casa Pia founded by D. Maria, the queen of D. Manuel—not reformed criminals, but converted Jewesses. [440] Battell gives some account of this campaign. See also Garcia Mendes, p. 11. Ngombe a Mukiama, one of the Ndembu to the north of the Mbengu, may be a descendant of this Ngombe (see Luis Simplico Fonseca’s account of “Dembos” in _An. do conselho ultram._, ii, p. 86). [441] Upon this Spaniard was conferred the habit of the Order of Christ, he was granted a pension of 20,000 reis, and appointed “marcador dos esclavos,” an office supposed to yield I,000 cruzados a year (Rebello de Aragão, p. 23). [442] Luciano Cordeiro (_Terras e Minas_, p. 7), says that, according to local tradition, the first presidio of that name was at Kasenga, a village which we are unable to discover on any map. [443] See Battell’s account of this campaign, p. 37. [444] See note, p. 37. [445] See Glossary, _Museke_. [446] Others call him Paio d’Araujo. [447] Estabelecimentos, 1607. [448] A. Beserra Fajardo, in _Producçoes commercio e governo do Congo e de Angola_, 1629, one of the documents published by Luciano Cordeiro in 1881. [449] Near where the railway now crosses that river. [450] Rebello de Aragão, p. 15. [451] It seems that the explorer considers Kambambe to lie eighty leagues inland (P. Guerreiro—_Rel. an._, 1515, f. 126—estimated the distance from S. Paulo to Kafuchi’s at sixty leagues). Accepting this gross over-estimate in calculating his further progress, and assuming him to have gone to the south-east, which was not only the shortest route to Chikovo and Mwanamtapa, but also avoided the country of the hostile Ngola, he cannot even have got as far as Bié. As to a “big lake,” he heard no more than other travellers have heard since, only to be disappointed. The natives certainly never told him that one of the rivers flowing out of that lake was the Nile. This bit of information he got out of a map. His expedition _may_ have taken place in 1607—he himself gives no date. Perhaps Forjaz had given the instructions, which were only carried out in 1612, when Kambambe was in reality threatened by the natives.