[368] Those of our readers who have no time or inclination to wade through the bulky tomes of Cavazzi and other missionaries of those days, may be recommended to read an excellent summary by the Franciscan Friar Eucher (Le Congo, Essai sur l’Histoire Religieuse de ce Pays, Huy, 1860).
[369] Paiva Manso, pp. 200-229.
[370] Fr. Bonaventura had left Luandu in December, 1649; in June, 1650, he was in Rome; in July, 1651, at Lisbon. He then returned to Kongo in the company of P. Giacinto Brusciotto of Vetralla (1652), but ultimately joined the mission in Georgia. To Brusciotto we are indebted for a grammar and vocabulary of the Sonyo dialect, published at Rome in 1659.
[371] Paiva Manso, p. 244.
[372] I have no doubt that these “Pedras” are identical with the “Pedras de Nkoshi,” or “lion rocks,” now occupied by the Presidio of Encoge.
[373] Cavazzi, p. 287.
[374] Published by Paiva Manso, pp. 350-355.
[375] Pedro Mendes, however, only gives the names of ten Kings. If we add to these Alvaro VII, D. Rafael, and Alvaro IX, mentioned by others, we make up the number to thirteen. See Appendix [III] for a list and classification of these Kings.
[376] Cadornega says Affonso III.
[377] He had some correspondence with the Pope in 1673 and 1677.