24 To Sao Paulo de Loanda. 
insensibly faded away ; the land is a waste, poor 
grazing ground for cattle landed from the south 
coast, whilst negrokins scream and splash in the 
adjoining sea. 
Beyond the Government gardens appears the old 
Ermida (chapel), Na Sa. da Nazareth, which Eng¬ 
lish writers have dubbed, after Madeiran fashion, 
the Convent. The frontage is mean as that of 
colonial ecclesiastical buildings in general, and 
even the epauletted fa§ades of old Sao Paulo do 
not deserve a description. Here, according to 
local tradition, was buried the head of the “ intrepid 
and arrogant king of Congo,” Dom Antonio, whose 
100,000 warriors were defeated at Ambuilla (Jan. 
i st, 1666) by Captain Luiz Lopes de Sequeira, 
the good soldier who lost his life, by a Portuguese 
hand, at the battle of Matamba (Sept. 4th, 1681). 
A picture in Dutch tiles (azulejos) was placed on 
the right side of the altar to commemorate the 
feat. 
After the Ermida are more ruined houses and 
ragged plantations upon the narrow shelf between 
the sea-cliff and the sea : they lead to the hot 
and unhealthy low town skirting the harbour, a 
single street with small offsets. A sandy strip 
spotted with cocoa-nuts, represents the Praia do 
Bungo (Bungo Beach), perhaps corrupted from 
Bunghi, a pra^a, or square ; it debouches upon 
the Quitanda Pequena, a succursale market-place, 
