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.
[Footnote 417: Manica is far inland, but the place indicated in the text
was probably near the mouth of the river of that name, on the north,
side of Delagoa bay. - E.]
In May 1591, Matthew de Albuquerque arrived in India as viceroy. About
this time the Portuguese met with a heavy loss in Monomotapa in a war
with the Muzimbas, a savage nation of Kafrs. Tete, a fort belonging
to the Portuguese high up the river Zambeze, has the command of all the
neighbouring district for three leagues round, which is divided among
eleven native chiefs, who are all obliged to repair with their armed
followers to the fort when ordered by the Portuguese commandant, to the
number of 2000 men. Pedro Fernandez de Chaves, who commanded in Tete,
with these Kafrs and some Portuguese marched against Quisura chief of
the Mumbos at Chicaronga, a town on the north of the Zambeze about
30 miles from Tete.
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