J40 NATIVES OF AFRICA IN THE i6tH CENTL'RV. 



still more from thirst, living on fruit of the veld, on shells and 

 tish of the sea. More than 300 died on the road. After three 

 months they reached the Bay. I'he chronicler says : 



They then met with a Kaffir, master of two villages, an old man who 

 seemed to them of good condition, to be well disposed, and who proved 

 himself to be such by the hospitality which they received from liini ; lie 

 told them not to go further, but to settle with him, and that he wiould 

 do his best to help them, indeed, this country was poor in means of sub- 

 sistence, not that it could not produce them, but because the Kaffirs were 

 people who only sowed very few seeds and ate nothing Init the beasts 

 which they killed. 



This man was the chief of Inhaca to whom I.ourengo 

 Marques had given the surname of Garcia de .Sa, the name of 

 the commander of Malacca, because his features were somewhat 

 like those of that official. He tried to keep the party near him, 

 telling them that on the Northern side of the Bay, there was a 

 chief with whom he \vas fighting, a great robber who would 

 certainly do them harm. The l^ortuguese, wishing to show 

 their gratitude for the kind reception received from the Inhaca 

 chief, consented to heli^ him to subjugate another petty chief, 

 six leagties to the South, who had revolted against him. So 

 Pantaleon de Sa and twenty white men accompanied the 500 

 warriors of the native king and defeated his enemy, bringing back 

 all his cattle as a prize. The Portuguese still niunbered 120. 

 But they insisted on going forward. They crossed a river (one 

 now called the Maputo River), and with great difticr.lty a second 

 one ( Tembe and Umbelozi). But, (hiring the crossing, .Manuel 

 de Sonza lost patience and, with his spear, he threatened the 

 Natives, who were to take the white men over in canoes. His 

 companions told him to take care, that this action would bring 

 disaster on the whole party. P>ut he was out of his senses. Plis 

 reason was giving way under the burden of his responsibilities 

 and the greatness of his sufferings. They all crossed the river, 

 but on the other side (which is the present Matjolo country), the 

 native chief comi:)elled them to give np their guns, saying his 

 people would not dare to stay with white men as long as these 

 had these frightful engines in their ix)Ssession ; then he scattered 

 them all over the land, and when they were totally unable to 

 defend themselves, the Kaffirs robbed them of everything thev 

 possessed. They stripped them of their clothes. For a time 

 Manuel de Souza and his wife were spared this disgrace, but 

 they had to submit to it after all. Dona Leonora, who was a 

 fidalga fa person of noble extraction), after having behaved in 

 an admirable way all through the journey, was so grieved by 

 this shameful treatment and the death of her child, which then 

 took place, that she died miserably. Her husband buried her 

 and fled to the bush, half mad. Then he disa])peare<l,. probably 

 eaten by wild beasts. His rings were found later on in a forest 

 of the Mpfumu country, and the chief showed them to the Por- 

 tuguese who vi.sited him. Most of the companions of M. de 

 Souza met the same fate. The ship for Delagoa Bay had already 



