[120] Queen Elizabeth died April 3, 1603; but peace with Spain was only concluded on August 19, 1604.
[121] João de Araujo e Azevedo was the officer left in command at Cambambe.
[122] That is S. Salvador.
[123] Ngongo, according to Cavazzi (p. 521), is a place on the road from Sundi to Batta, where Girolamo da Montesarchio destroyed the heathen images. This place possibly corresponds to the modern Gongo, a station on the Stanley Pool Railway. Cadornega has a Gongo de Bata, which figures on Dapper’s map as Congo de Bata, and lies to the west of the Mbanza of Bata. It is impossible to tell which of these places was visited by Battell; possibly he passed through both.
[124] The Mbanza or chief town of Mbata, or Batta, still exists in 8° S., long. 15° E. Bentley (Pioneering, vol. ii, p. 404) passed through it, and discovered a huge wooden cross, a relic of the ancient missionaries.
[125] D. Manuel Cerveira Pereira had assumed government at the beginning of 1603, and three years would conveniently carry us to 1606. The “new” Governor, D. Manuel Pereira Forjaz, was, however, only nominated on August 2, 1607.
[127] Nkoko, a large grey antelope.
[128] Impalanca, Palanga, or Mpalanga, an antelope (Hippotragus equinus).
[129] This is an electric silurus called nsõmbo, plur. sinsombo, by the natives. Fishermen dread its electrical discharges, but value its flesh (Pechuel-Loesche, Die Loango Expedition, vol. iii, p. 282). This fish, Mr. Dennett tells me, is the “xina” (taboo) of women, generally speaking, which may account for the word becoming a generic name for fish, as in Unyamwezi, Ugogo, and other countries, if vocabularies can be trusted.