CHAPTER XIII 



How THE PORTUGUESE TOOK AND HELD ANGOLA 



THE galleys of King Necho of Egypt, manned 

 by Phoenician seamen, must have sailed 

 past the shores of Angola in 600 B.C. 

 on this the earliest known circumnavigation of 

 Africa ; as must the little Western ship, whose prow 

 Eudoxes found on the eastern coast of Africa ; 

 but it is probable that many travellers, including 

 the Etruscans, had preceded even the Phoenicians 

 in the search for the precious wares of Africa. 



The voyages of Hanno, the Carthaginian ad- 

 miral, who two thousand five hundred years ago 

 sailed, with scores of ships and thousands of people, 

 to found colonies on the West African coast, and 

 those of the Phoenician traders, foreshadowed the 

 existence of mighty states and an African culture 

 established there possibly hundreds of years before 

 their arrival. 



The discovery of monument and script, by 

 Frobcnius and others, in Western Africa, shows 

 that an ancient coastal empire, which may have 

 been Atlantis, existed where is now Yombaland. 

 This civilization possiHy may have owed its origin 

 to distant Tyre nncl Etruria, while great empires 

 inland to this consh acknowledged their metropolis 



