9^ DISCOVERIES OF THE PORTUGUESE. 
the country being to keep concubines, and eat 
human flesh, they would on no account renounce 
such valuable institutions at the mere command 
of a stranger. This caused them to lend a ready 
ear to a certain evil disposed person, who assured 
them, that the father was a mere bankrupt mer- 
chant, and one, who having by magical arts caus- 
ed the death of two sons of the king of Congo, 
had thus been obliged to fly in disguise, in hopes 
to escape the punishment of his crimes. Although 
this calumny was repelled by the king, it made a 
considerable impression upon the nation. When 
the missionary, therefore, proposed to undertake 
a journey into the kingdom of Anziko, he was 
advised, under present circumstances, to proceed 
no farther ; an exhortation which he deemed it 
prudent not to reject. His sole converts in Con- 
cobella, therefore, being the king, queen, and the 
young prince, there appeared no sufficient motive 
for prolonging his stay, and he returned to Sundi. 
Concobella is a large city, about three miles in 
circumference, situated on the northern bank of 
the Congo. According to the map of D' Anville, 
it is about seventy miles above the cataracts, in a 
north-east direction ; and upwards of four hundred 
from the mouth of the Congo. As the mission to 
Micocco or Anziko, though often projected, was 
never carried into effect, this city remained the 
