A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 06 eBook

Robert Kerr (writer)
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 750 pages of information about A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 06.

A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 06 eBook

Robert Kerr (writer)
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 750 pages of information about A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 06.

[Footnote 409:  If the latitude in the text could be depended on, this shipwreck seems to have taken place on the coast now occupied by the Hambonaas, near the small river Bagasie, 85 miles south from the entrance into Delagoa bay.  The river of Semin Dote is probably that now called Mafumo, which agrees with the country of Fumos in the text; and the bay of Lorenzo Marquez may possibly be Delagoa, though only 28 leagues north from the latitude of the text, but there is no other bay of any importance for 400 miles farther along this coast.—­E.]

[Footnote 410:  In modern maps, the country along the south side of the river Mafumo, is said to be the dominions of Capellah.—­E.]

[Footnote 411:  To the south of the Hambonaas at Delagoa bay, the coast of Natal is inhabited by the Tambookies and Koussis.  The river St Lucia still remains in our maps in the latitude indicated, but the other names in the text are unknown in modern geography.—­E.]

[Footnote 412:  Of these rivers only that of Manica, called likewise Spiritu Santo, retains the name in the text.  That circumstance and the latitude indicated, point out Delagoa bay as that called St Lawrence by De Faria; unless we may suppose St Lawrence bay includes the whole bend inwards of the coast from Cape Corientes to point St Lucia on the coast of Natal, and that Delagoa bay, in the bottom of this large sweep, is that formerly called the bay of Lorenzo Marquez.—­E.]

[Footnote 413:  No trace of Anzate can be found in modern maps.—­E.]

[Footnote 414:  The text in this place is assuredly erroneous, as the Mocaranges have been formerly described by De Faria as the ruling nation in Monomotapa, which runs along the great bay of Sofala to the north of Cape Corientes.—­E.]

[Footnote 415:  Probably the country and river now called Inhambane.—­E.]

[Footnote 416:  These five last mentioned kingdoms, probably named from the barbarous chiefs of roving savage tribes, are now unknown to geography.—­E.]

After suffering much from hunger thirst and fatigue, the survivors from the San Thome arrived at the town of Manica, where they were courteously received by the king, who offered them permission either to live in his town or in the island where we have formerly said the Portuguese used to reside during their trade for ivory on this coast, at which place they might remain till the arrival of the Portuguese merchants[417].  They preferred the island, where some of them died; and as they were ill accommodated here, they passed over in boats to the continent and renewed their weary pilgrimage to the northward, but separated.  Some got to the fort of Sofala, and others to the town of the king of Innaca, where they found some Portuguese traders who like themselves had suffered shipwreck.  After enduring great hardships, many of them died, and among these was Don Paul de Lima.  Those who survived, returned after a long time to Goa, among whom were three ladies.  Two of these, Donna Mariana and Donna Joanna Mendoza dedicated themselves to a religious life; but Donna Beatrix, the widow of Don Paul de Lima, having conveyed her husbands remains to Goa, returned into Portugal, and was afterwards married at Oporto.

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