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cramped in with lead.” According to others, the 
inscription mentioned only the date, the king, and 
the captain. The Padrao of the Congo was espe¬ 
cially called from the “ Lord of Guinea’s favourite 
saint, de Sao Jorge”—sit faustum ! As Carli 
shows, the patron of Congo and Angola was San¬ 
tiago, who was seen bodily assisting at a battle in 
which Dom Affonso, son of Giovi (Emmanuel), 
first Christian king of Congo, prevailed against a 
mighty host of idolaters headed by his pagan 
brother “ Panso Aquitimo.” In 1786 Sir Home 
Popham found a marble cross on a rock near 
Angra dos Ilheos or Pequena (south latitude 26° 
37'), with the arms of Portugal almost effaced. 
Till lately the jasper pillar at Cabo Negro bore 
the national arms. Doubtless much latitude was 
allowed in the make and material of these padroes; 
that which I saw near Cananea in the Brazil is of 
saccharine marble, four palms high by two broad \ 
it bears a scutcheon charged with a cross and sur¬ 
mounted by another. 
There is some doubt concerning the date of this 
mission. De Barros (I. iii. 3) says a.d. 1484. Lopes 
de Limn (IV. i. 5) gives the reason why a.d. 1485 
is generally adopted, and he believes that the 
cruise of the previous year did not lead to the 
Congo River. The explorer, proceeding to inspect 
the coast south of Cape St. Catherine (south lati¬ 
tude 2 0 30'), which he had discovered in 1473, set 
