The Cruise along Shore. 
45 
This nest of slavers was temporarily occupied in 
May 15, 1855. The Governor-General, Senor Co- 
elho de Amaral, reinforced by 1,000 soldiers from 
home, and levying 2,500 “ Empacasseiros,” 1 * 3 em¬ 
barked from Loanda in the “Dorn Fernando ” fri¬ 
gate, landed here, once more burnt the barracoons, 
and built the fort. In 1856 a force was sent under 
Colonel Francisco Salles Ferreira, to re-open a 
communication with the Bembe mines of copper 
and malachite. That energetic officer marched 
on Sao Salvador, the old capital of Congo, and 
crowned Dom Pedro V., whose predecessor died 
the year before. He there fell a victim to fever, 
and his second in command, Major Andrade, was 
nearly cut off on his return. Shortly afterwards 
the natives blockaded, but were driven from, 
Bembe, and they attempted in vain to carry 
Ambriz. 
The far-famed copper mines were granted to the 
Portuguese in the sixteenth century by the King 
of Congo. They were the property of his feuda¬ 
tory, the (black) “ Marquess of Pemba ” (Bembe) : 
Barbot mentions their being mistaken for gold, and 
feels himself bound to warn his readers that the 
1 See “ The Lands of the Cazembe ” (p. 25, note), where, 
however, the word has taken the form of “ Impageiro.” At p. 
27, line 6, a parenthesis has been misplaced before and after 
“ Impalancas,” a word differently interpreted by Portuguese 
writers. 
