[Europeans Committed to the Sea.]
These people will suffer no white man to be buried in their land,[160] and if any stranger or Portugal come thither to trade, and chance to die, he is carried in a boat two miles from the shore, and cast into the sea. There was once a Portugal gentleman, that came to trade with them, and had his house on shore. This gentleman died, and was buried some four months. That year it did not rain so soon as it was wont, which beginneth about December, so that they lacked rain for some two months. Then their mokisso told them that the Christian, which was buried, must be taken out of the earth, and cast into the sea; and within three days it rained, which made them have a great belief in the devil.
§ VI.
Of the Provinces of Bongo, Calongo, Mayombe, Manikesocke, Motimbas: of the ape-monster Pongo: their Hunting, Idolatries, and divers other observations.
[Bongo.]
To the eastward of Longeri is the Province of Bongo, and it bordereth on Mococke, [of which] the great Angeca[161] is king. In this place is great store of iron, and palm-cloth, and elephants’ teeth, and great store of corn.
[Cango.]
To the north-east is the great province of Cango,[162] and it is fourteen days journey from the town of Longo. This place is full of mountains and rocky ground, and full of woods, and hath great store of copper. The elephants in this place do excel, and there are so many that the people of Longo hath great store of elephants’ teeth, and bring them to the port of Longo.