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thought neceffary. Four days after, notice was fent to rite 
king, that his fubjefts had attacked the rebels, and had 
been repulfed with lofs; but that, if his majedy would 
but condefcend to animate them with his prefence, the 
light of him would infpire them with fuch courage, that 
they would atfuredly prove victorious. This had the de¬ 
filed effect ; and the king fet out a few days after, with¬ 
out any other precaution than his own guards, to head his 
army, which was encamped on the banks ot the Lucalla. 
He no fooner appeared in view, than the chief officers 
came out to meet him ; and having, under pretence ot pay¬ 
ing their refpefts, gradually feparated him from his guards, 
they fell upon him and difpatched him at once. 
Bandi Angola was fucceeaed by his fon Ngola Bandi, 
whofe mother had been a Have, and whole title to the 
crown was confequently difputable, according to the laws 
of the country. Of this the new king being well apprifed, 
thought proper to begin his reign by murdering every per- 
fon who had oppofed his election. He began with the len- 
dula , or commander of the king’s rear-guard; who, by his 
office, is the chief of the electors, and the perfon who go¬ 
verns the kingdom during the interregnum. Him he or¬ 
dered to be put to death, with all his family. Thefe were 
followed by the principal officers of his father’s court; all 
his concubines, together with their parents and near rela¬ 
tions, whom he caufed to be butchered; together with his 
half-brother, his father’s fon by a favourite concubine, 
and then but an infant. He did not fpare even the fon of 
his tiller Zingha Bandi, whom fhe had by one of her para¬ 
mours. The interelt of his filter had contributed greatly 
to raife this tyrant to the throne ; and his ingratitude, with 
the murder of her ion, fo exafperated her, that fhe fwore 
to be revenged on him in the lame way. 
The Portuguefe were the next objefts of his refentment. 
Thefe he fo much dreaded on account of their valour and 
policy, that he immediately declared w ar, refolving not to 
lay down his arms till he had exterminated them to the lad 
man, or driven them totally out of his dominions. His 
rafhnefs, however, colt him dear. Myriads of the Ango- 
lic troops were overthrown by a handful of Portugueie ; 
and the king himlelf was forced to fly, firlt into the ifland 
of Chiconda, in the river Coanza, and then into the de- 
ferts of Oacco. Here his conquerors, out of great cle¬ 
mency, allowed him to live among the wild beads, with¬ 
out any other fudenance than what the del'erts afforded. 
He had the misfortune alfo to lofe his queen, and two lif¬ 
ters, Cambi and Fungi, who were taken prifoners by the 
Portuguefe. The king, being informed of this, lent an 
embalfy to treat of their ranfom, and an exchange of pri¬ 
foners. The propofal was readily agreed to; and the prin- 
ceffes were fent back laden with prefents. The king, how¬ 
ever, refilled to perform his part of the agreement, and 
thereby plunged himfelf into dill greater difficulties. A 
new Portuguefe viceroy being arrived about this time, 
Ngola was quite at a lots how to excufe the non-perform¬ 
ance of his part of the treaty. At lad he had recourfe to 
his exafperated filter Zingha ; and having excufed, as well 
as he could, the murder of her fon, propofed to fend her 
on a fplendid embafly to the viceroy. Having confented, 
but without forgetting her refentment, die let-out, as ple¬ 
nipotentiary for the king of Angola, with a magnificent re¬ 
tinue, was received with all the honour due to her rank, 
and lodged in a fplendid palace prepared for her. 
At the fird audience Zingha had of Don John (the Por¬ 
tuguefe viceroy), (he was furprifed to find a dately elbow- 
chair prepared for him to fit upon, and for herfelf only a rich 
tapedry fpread on the floor, with a velvet cufhion embroi¬ 
dered with gold, and placed over againfl the chair of date. 
Diffembling her difpleafure, however, fhe beckoned to one 
of the ladies of her retinue, commanded her to lay herfelf 
down on her elbows and knees upon the carpet, and fat 
herfelf upon her back during the whole time of the audi¬ 
ence. She behaved with fuch addrefs and dignity, as to 
gain the admiration of the w hole council. A propofal was 
made of entering into an alliance offenfive and defendve 
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with the king of Angola, provided he acknowledged him¬ 
felf' the vaffal of the king of Portugal, and fubmitted to 
pay a yearly tribute. To this Zingha replied, that fuch 
conditions were indeed fit to be impofed upon thofe who 
had been conquered by the {word ; but not upon a great 
and powerful monarch, who only fought their friend fiiip 
and alliance : upon which the treaty was concluded on 
both fides, without any other conditions than the exchange 
of prifoners. 
Zingha was fo taken with the honours done her by the 
Portuguefe, and fo intent upon obferving the order, drels, 
arms, kc. of their troops, that fhe (laid at Loanda a con- 
liderable time ; during which (he was infracted in the 
Chriftian religion, and confented to be baptifed. Don John 
and his fpoufe were the Iponfors; who difmiffed her foon 
after, with all poffible honours, and highly fatisfied with 
her reception and fuccefs. At her return, (lie took care 
to have the articles ratified by her brother, who exprelfcd 
his approbrtion of them, and the highed obligations to her. 
He even went fo far as to defire the viceroy to fend him 
fome proper perfons to indruft him in the Chriftian reli¬ 
gion, which he laid he was .very defirous of embracing. 
This requed was immediately granted ; and Don Denis de 
Faria, a negro pried, a native of Angola, was difpatched, 
with an officer of diltinCtion, to (land godfather to the king. 
Thefe met at firlt with a gracious reception ; but, when 
they came to talk of baptifm, Ngola altered his mind, arid 
told them it was too much below his dignity to receive 
it from the fon of one of his Haves, and fent them both, 
back. 
As no experience feems to have been a fufficient anti¬ 
dote againfl the innate folly of Ngola Bandi, he loon after 
took it into his head to make war on the Portuguefe, and 
invaded fome of their territories. This lalt action proved 
his ruin : his troops were all cut off, and himfelf forced to 
fwim for his life to a fmall illand in the Coanza, whither 
the Portuguefe purfued and furrounded him; fo that he 
had no other chance, but either to fall into their hands, or 
be devoured by wild beads, with which the place fwarmed. 
From both thefe dangers he was relieved by a dofe of poi- 
fon, given him, as was fuppofed, by his filter Zingha. 
Before this time, however, he had taken care to fend his 
elded ion to the country of the Giagas, and put him un¬ 
der the care- of one of their chiefs, called Giaga Caza, 
whom he befought to take care of him, and protect him 
from his aunt Zingha, as he rightly imagined fhe would 
not fail of attemp ting his life, in order to lecure herfelf on 
the throne. Zingha Bandi was crowned queen of Angola 
in 1627. She was a very artful woman, endowed with 
great prefence of mind, firm in her refolutions, of an in¬ 
trepid courage, and a great midrefs in the art of dillimu- 
lation. She inherited a jealous and cruel temper, to which 
(lie would not hefitate to facrifice her neared relations, if 
they gave her the lead umbrage. To this jealoufy, there¬ 
fore, fhe refolved to facridce her nephew, becaufe he had 
a better title to the crown than herfelf. She made ufe of 
the mod folemn oaths to draw him out of the hands of his 
guardian, proteding that fhe had accepted of the throne 
with no other view than to preferve it for him. But Giaga, 
her brother, being well acquainted with her temper, was 
proof againd all her oaths and fair fpeeches. Zingha, find- 
ing this method ineffectual, pretended a defire of refigning 
tlie crown to her nephew, to which fhe faid die had no o- 
ther objection, than that die was afraid he was yet incapable 
of adiiming the reins of government. She therefore defired 
an interview with him, though ever fo diort, that fhe might 
fatisfy herfelf in this particular, and promifed to detain 
him no longer than Giaga fhould think neceffary. Giaga 
thought there could be no danger in confenting to a diort 
interview; and therefore fent the unfortunate prince to 
her, attended by a magnificent retinue. The cruel queen 
no fooner got him in her power, than fhe murdered him 
with her own hand, and caufed his body to be thrown into 
the Coanza, ridding herfelf, by that inhuman aft, of a dan. 
gerous rival, as well as revenging herfelf on her brother. 
