At Length The Boat Reached The Shore, On Which Ninety-Eight
Persons Landed, Several Of Whom Were Men Of Note
With their wives, and
some friars, one of whom after confessing the people who remained in the
ship wished to
Have staid with them that he might aid their devotions to
the last. After landing, the women put themselves into mens habits,
after the Indian manner, for the greater ease in travelling, and the
whole company set off on their march in good order, a friar going before
carrying a crucifix on high. The place where they landed was on that
part of the coast of Natal called by the Portuguese the country of the
Fumos, but by the natives the country of Macomates, being inhabited
by Kafirs of that name. It is in the latitude of 27 deg. 20' S. beyond the
river of Semin Dote, 50 leagues south of the bay of Lorenzo
Marquez[409]. All the lands of the Fumos belongs to the king of
Virangune[410], and extends 30 leagues into the interior, bordering on
the south with the country of Mocalapata, which again extends to the
river St Lucia, in lat. 28 deg. 15' S. and to the kingdom of Vambe,
which contains a great part of the Terra de Natal[411]. From thence
to the Cape of Good Hope, the natives have no king, being ruled only by
ancozes or chiefs of villages. Next to the kingdom of Virangune to
the north is that of Innaca, towards the N.E. to the point of the bay
of St Laurence, in lat.
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