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lace timidft the (bouts and acclamations of many tlioufands 
of her fubjedts. On that day the gave a magnificent en¬ 
tertainment to the Portuguefe relident, and to all her court, 
in two great porticos, and (lie herfelf vouchfafed to eat 
after the European manner; that is, fitting on a (lately 
elbow chair, with a high table before her, covered with 
the fined linen, and with diflies, plates, knives, and forks, 
all of lilver gilt. She beftowed lome largefics upon her 
chief officers, releafed a number of (laves, and at night 
appeared at the head of her ladies of honour, drefied in 
the Amazonian manner. They performed a kind of com¬ 
bat, in which the queen, though upwards of eighty years 
of age, behaved with the great vigour and activity of a 
woman of thirty. Her life, however, was not lengthened 
in proportion to her vigour and activity: for in the month 
of September (lie was feized with an inflammation in her 
throat; which, in December, having feized her bread and 
lungs, die expired on the 17th of that month, and was 
fucceeded by her filler Barbara. 
The deceafed queen was buried with extraordinary 
pomp; and, out of regard to her, Barbara was inaugura¬ 
ted a l'econd and third time, with the greated pomp, and 
the mod joyful acclamations. She was a very zealous 
Chridian, but wanted her lider’s abilities, and had the 
misfortune of being in the decline of life, lame, and almod 
blind. Befides this, die had been married to a proud ill- 
natured hufband, named Mona Zingha-, who, though to 
her he owed all his fortune and advancement, being him- 
felf no more than the foil of a dave, ufed her with fuch 
cruelty, even in the late queen’s life, that (lie was obliged 
to take refuge in the palace. 
The queen’s infirmities, augmented by his cruelty, and 
daily increafing, foon brought on her death, which happened 
on the 24th of March, 1666. Upon this, Mona Zingha 
made all podible hade to get himfelf eledled king; and 
immediately renounced the Chridian religion, railing a 
periecution at the fame time againd its profelfors. He even 
wrote to the Portuguefe viceroy, acquainting him with his 
having renounced Chridianity, and with his defign to re¬ 
vive the Giagan rites. To (hew that he meant to be as 
good as his word, he ordered all the children under fix 
years of age, that could be found, to be facrificed in ho¬ 
nour of their infernal deities. He alfo recalled the fing- 
hillos, and heaped many favours upon them ; fo that they 
became entirely devoted to his purpofes. He likewife 
caufed many of his fubjedts to be privately poifoned ; and 
then gave out, that their unaccountable deaths were ow¬ 
ing to their having abandoned the religion of their ancef- 
tors, and embraced Chridianity ; which he dyled the re¬ 
ligion of a parcel of famifhed firangers, who, through their 
extreme mifery, had been forced to leave their native 
country, and feek for a livelihood in the riched provinces 
of Africa. 
By thefe and fuch-like dratagems he almod entirely ex¬ 
tirpated Chridianity, with every appearance of civiliza¬ 
tion which had been introduced among his (objects. His 
career, however, was dopped by Don John the princefs 
Barbara’s fird hufband, from whom (lie had been divorced 
on account of his having another wife. He foon com¬ 
pelled Hie ufurper to fly into an ifiar.d in the Coanza ; but, 
not having the precaution to reduce him entirely, Mond 
Zingha found means to retrieve his affairs, and at lad de¬ 
feated and killed Don John himfelf, by which he again 
became mader of the throne without any farther oppoii- 
tion. He was no fooner re-edabli(hed, than he began to 
purfue his ravages with more fury than ever: when, on a 
fudden, Don Francifco, the fon of Don John, appeared 
at the head of an army in oppofition to the ufurper; and, 
in the fird engagement Mona Zingha being defeated and 
killed, Don Francifco became foie mader of the empire. 
it is not known whether this prince kept to the terms 
of alliance made by Zinglta with the Portuguefe or not. 
Thefe, however, have preferved their Gonquelts, and for 
fome time they allowed the natives to choofe a king for 
themfelves. Thefe kings enjoy only a mere ihadow of 
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royalty : their whole grandeur confiding in being allowed 
to breed peacocks, and adorn themfelves with their fea¬ 
thers, which was forbidden to their fubjedis under pain 
of perpetual (lavery. The lad of thefe kings was named 
Ngola Sedeiio, who, didiking an empty name of royahv, 
revolted from the Portuguefe, and carried on a long war 
with them ; but, being at lad defeated and killed, his head 
was cut off, falted, and fent to Lisbon in pickle. After 
this the Portuguefe feem not to have thought it fafe to 
trull their Angolic fubjedis even with the name of a king 
of their own, but have veiled the power entirely in their 
viceroy ; but as to the extent of his dominions, and how 
matters (land between him and that race of Angolic prin¬ 
ces who have preferved their liberty, we are in the dark. 
When in its greated fplendour, the kingdom of Angola 
contained the feventeen following provinces: Cheflama, 
Sumbi, Benguela, Rimba, Sietta, High and Low Benibca, 
Temba, Oacco, Cabezzo, Luboio, Loanda, Bengo, Dan- 
da, Mofiche, Higher and Lower ilamba, Oraij, and Eni- 
bacca. The provinces conquered by the Portuguefe du¬ 
ring the wars above-mentioned were, Danda, Mofiche, 
Bengo, the Higher and Lower Ilamba, Oraij, Embacca, 
Benguela, Sietta, Cabezzo, Luboio, and Oacco. The 
principal rivers are the Danda and Coanza. The Coanza 
is large, deep, and rapid. It empties itfelf into the At¬ 
lantic ocean about lat. 9. 20. S. twelve leagues fouth of 
Loando the capital of the kingdom. It is navigable for 
150 miles, and abounds with a variety of fifh. It forms 
feveral illands, has fome cataradls, and one in particular 
which bears its name. As for its fource, and the length 
of ground it erodes from eaft to weft before it comes to the 
Portuguefe fettlement, it is abfolutely unknown, as weil 
as the countries through which it runs. Its mouth, which 
runs between the capes Palmerino and Lego, is above a 
league wide ; the northern (liore is the deeped, and along 
which the velfels fail. The fall of this river into the 
ocean is fo rapid, that the fea appears quite muddy for two 
or three leagues below it. Its mouth is not eafily per¬ 
ceived from the open fea, by reafon of an illand quite co¬ 
vered with high trees which lies juft before it. The tw o 
principal illands formed by this river are called MaJJhnder 
and Motchiamia. The one is fix leagues long, and about 
two miles broad: it is very fertile in maize, millet, and 
fome other grains, which are reaped at three difierent fea- 
fons of the year. It produces likewife vafi quantities of 
manhioc, a root, of which they make a coarfe kind of 
meal, which ferves indead of bread. Here alfo grow 
great numbers of palm and other fruit trees of various 
kinds. The illand of Motchiamia is four or five miles 
long, and one in breadth., modly plain, and producing a 
variety of roots and herbs. It likewife abounds in cattle; 
and there were formerly five or fix Portuguefe families 
fettled upon it, who carried on a confiderable trade in thefe 
commodities, and likewife in (laves. 
AN'GON,/! in the ancient military art, a kind of jave¬ 
lin ufed by the French. They darted it at a confiderable 
didance. The iron head of this weapon refembled a flow¬ 
er-de-luce. It is the opinion of fome writers, that the 
arms of France are not fiowers-de-luce, but the iron point 
of the angon or javelin of the ancient French. 
ANGO'NE,^. A nervous fort of qui'nfy. Vogfil de¬ 
fines it to be an acute (lopping up of the fauces, without 
inflammation. He fays that the convullive quinfy, and hy- 
fteric fuffocation, are its fpecies. 
AN'GOR,/! A concentration of the natural heat of the 
body, caufing a palpitation of the heart, and anxiety. In 
the beginning of a fever it is a bad prognodic. 
AN'GOT, a province or kingdom of Abyfiinia, for¬ 
merly rich and fertile, but almod ruined by the Gailas, a 
wandering nation in the internal parts of Africa. 
ANGOULE'SME, a town in the department of Cha- 
rente. It hands on a mountain furrounded with rocks, the 
river Charcnte running at the foot of it. It is twenty miles 
wed of Limoges, and 250 fouth-by-wed of Paris. Lat. 
45. 39. N. Ion, o. 14. E. 
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