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to do it.’* Happily this “ emigration” has come 
to an end” : M. Regis, seeing no results, gave 
orders to sell off all the goods in his factories, and 
to retain only one clerk as housekeeper. The 
ouvriers litres deserted and fled in all directions, 
for fear of being “ put in a cannibal pot ” and being 
eaten by the white anthropophagi. 
The history of missionary enterprise in the 
Congo regions is not less interesting than the 
slave-trade. The first missioners sailed in De¬ 
cember, 1490, under Gon^alo de Sousa; of the 
three one were killed by the heat, and another 
having made himself “ Chaplain to the Congolan 
Army,” by a “ Giaghi” chief. The seed sown by 
these friars was cultivated by twelve Franciscans of 
the Order of Observants. The Right Reverend 
Fathers of the Company appeared in 1560 with 
the Conquistador Paulo Dias de Novaes. Accord¬ 
ing to Lopez de Lima, who seems to endorse the 
saying, “ Si cum Jesuitis, non cum Jesu itis,” they 
worried one captain-general to death, and they 
attempted to found in Congo-land another Uruguay 
or Paraguay. But here they totally failed, and, 
as yet indeed, they have not carried out, either in 
East or West Africa, the celebrated boast popularly 
attributed to their general, Borgia (1572) : 
“ We shall come in like the lambs; 
We shall be driven out like the dogs; 
We shall rush like the wolves; 
We shall be renewed like the eagles.” 
