[481] Dapper, p. 579. This first attempt to cultivate the soil was undertaken very reluctantly, but the profits derived therefrom soon converted both banks of the Mbengu into flourishing gardens. [482] The _Catalogo_, p. 366, calls him Alvares, but Paiva Manso, p. 182, Gaspar Gonçalves (see also Eucher, p. 83). [483] This seminary was never founded, notwithstanding repeated Royal reminders of 1684, 1686, 1688, and 1691 (Lopez de Lima, _Ensaio_, iii, p. 149). [484] S. Braun, _Schifffarten_, Basel, 1624; and P. van der Broeck, _Journalen_, Amst., 1624. [485] Jacome Ferreira, in command of these patrol ships, was killed in action in 1639, when the command devolved upon Bartholomeu de Vasconcellos. [486] N. G. van Kampen, _Geschiedenes der Nederlanders buiten Europa_, Haarlem, 1831, vol. i, p. 436, asks his readers to decide upon the morality of this proceeding, when negotiations were actually in progress, and in the case of Portugal, which had only recently thrown off the yoke of Spain, the common enemy. [487] _Catalogo_, p. 375. [488] _Cavazzi_, p. 626. [489] He was a son of the valiant Martim de Sá, the Governor of Rio de Janeiro. Previously to sailing up to Luandu, he erected a factory on Kikombo Bay. [490] This envoy likewise visited the Jagas Kasanji, Kalungu and Kalumbu for the purpose of persuading them to abolish infanticide; and they promised to shut an eye if the old practice was not followed. [491] In 1652 two years’ grace for the payment of all debts incurred anterior to the invasion of the Dutch was granted to all inhabitants of Angola. [492] Cavazzi vouches for this (p. 637). [493] She was conducted back by José Carrasco. [494] This may have been Kasanji ka kinjuri, born in 1608, and baptised by Antonio of Serraveza in 1655, and named D. Pasquale (Cavazzi, p. 784). [495] Lopes de Lima, _Ensaio_, iii, p. xxxii, says he was assassinated by a Portuguese soldier. [496] All the successors of the famous Queen, as also her people and country, are called Nzinga (Ginga) by Portuguese authors. [497] Lopes de Lima, _Ensaio_, iii, p. 117, and parte segunda, p. 18, calls them Quinalonga, and there can be no doubt of their identity with the Quihindonga (Kindonga) islands of Cavazzi. The _Catalogo_ does not mention this cession. [498] He had arrived on August 26th, 1669, and spite of his prudence must be held responsible for this disastrous Sonyo campaign. [499] See Paivo Manso, p. 255, who quotes an anonymous _Relação_, published at Lisbon in 1671; also Cadornega. [500] Cavazzi, who accompanied this expedition as chaplain, gives a full account of it, without naming the Portuguese commander. His geographical data, as usual, are exceedingly vague: a circumstance all the more to be regretted, as even now we know very little about this part of Angola. [501] This soba had been baptised. In 1684, a brother of his expelled him, but he was reinstated by João de Figueireda e Souza.