[388] For the instructions given to Pacheco, see Alguns Documentos, p. 436.
[389] Paiva Manso, p. 55.
[390] Kiluanji, nzundu, and ndambi, which are given as names of kings, are in reality only titles assumed by them.—Capello and Ivens, Benguella to the Iacca, vol. ii, p. 53. Tumba-ndala (according to Héli Chatelain) was another of these ancient royal titles.
[391] Capello and Ivens, ib., vol. ii, p. 59. His proper name is Kalunga (i.e., Excellency) ndombo akambo.
[392] Kabâsa, according to Cordeiro da Matta’s Diccionario, simply means “capital;” but J. V. Carneiro (An. do cons. ultram., vol. ii, p. 172, 1861) would have us distinguish between a Mbanza ia Kabasa and a Mbanza ia Kakulu; the former meaning “second,” the latter “first,” capital. This “first” or original capital of the kings of Ndongo was undoubtedly in the locality of Queen Nzinga’s kabasa; the second capital was at Pungu a ndongo.
[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.