King Sebastian Greatly Lamented His
Untimely End, Which He Expressed By Giving An Honourable Reception To
His Body When Brought To Lisbon.
After the death of Barreto, a royal order was found among his papers by
which Vasco Fernandez Homem was appointed his successor.
By the
persuasions of Monclaros, who was now disgusted with the expedition of
Monomotapa, Homem returned with the troops to Mozambique, abandoning the
projected conquest of the mines. At that place some judicious persons,
and particularly Francisco Pinto Pimentel, urged him to resume the
execution of the orders which had been given by the king to Barreto, and
he determined upon resuming the enterprise for the conquest of
Monomotapa; but as Monclaros was now gone back to Portugal, he found
himself at liberty to take the route for the mines through Sofala, as
Barreto wished to have done originally. Landing therefore at Sofala, he
marched directly inland towards the mines of Manica in the kingdom of
Chicanga, bordering by the inland with the kingdom of Quiteve
which is next in power to Monomotapa[397]. To conciliate the king of
Quiteve, Homem sent messengers with presents to request the liberty of
passing through his dominions, but being jealous of his intentions, that
king received his propositions very coldly. Homem advanced however,
having nearly a similar force with that which accompanied Barreto on the
former expedition into the kingdom of Monomotapa, and several bodies of
Kafrs that attempted to stop his progress were easily routed with great
slaughter.
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