A.D. 



1 59 1, 



Paulo Dias 

 Governour of 

 Angola. 



The king of 

 Matamba. 



1 1 4 Portugal; 

 slain in 

 Angola. 



Amasanguano 

 the Portugals 

 abode in 

 Angola. 



THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



An Advertisement sent to Philip the second king 

 of Spaine from Angola by one Baltazar Almeida 

 de Sousa, touching the state of the foresayd 

 countrey, written the 21 of May, 1 59 1 . 



He 26 of July I certified your majestie by 

 John Frere de Bendanha your majesties 

 pay-master and commissioner, with the 

 governour Paulo Dias, which is lately 

 deceased, of all things that happened 

 the 28 of December in the yere last 

 past 1590. Now 1 thought it con- 

 venient to advertise your majestie what hath fallen out 

 since that time, which is as foloweth. The governour 

 Luis Serrano encamped himselfe eight leagues from 

 Cabasa, where the Negro king dwelleth, with 350 Portu- 

 gal souldiers : & afterward being there encamped, it 

 hapned that the king of Matamba sent a strong and 

 mightie army, & in warlike maner, with strange inven- 

 tions for the sayd purpose. So the king of Angola gave 

 this other king battell, and the governour sent 114 

 souldiers Portugals to helpe the said king of Angola : 

 in which battell it was the will of God that our army 

 was overthrowen and all slaine, as well our Portugals 

 as the Moores which tooke part with them. So with 

 this overthrow it happened that this realme the second 

 time hath rebelled against your majestie. Hereupon 

 the Governour assembling the rest of his Portugall 

 souldiers, to the number of 250 altogether, went to 

 Amasanguano, which is now his place of abode. More- 

 over, besides the manifold losses which have befallen 

 the Portugals in this realme, your majestie hath sus- 

 tained other great misfortunes both in your lands and 

 goods. And because I cannot personally come to certifie 

 your majestie thereof, I thought it good to write some 

 part of the same whereby your majestie may understand 

 the estate of this countrey. This realme, for the most 



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