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Diego Cam Arrived Safely In Portugal With Cacuta; Who Was Soon Afterwards Baptized By The Name Of _John Silva_, The

King and queen of Portugal doing him the honour of attending on him as sponsors at the holy font; and

The splendid ceremonial was closed by the baptism of his sable attendants.

Some time previous to this event, Alphonso de Aviero carried an ambassador from the king of Benin to the king of Portugal, requesting that some missionaries might be sent for the conversion of his subjects; and, although the artful conduct of that African prince threw many difficulties in the way of this mission, many of the Negroes of that country were converted. From the ambassador of Benin, the king of Portugal received information of a powerful monarch, named _Organe_, whose territories lay at the distance of 250 leagues beyond the kingdom of Benin, and who possessed a supremacy over all the adjacent states. Assuming Cape Lopo Goncalves, in lat. 1 deg. S. as the southern boundary of the kingdom of Benin, 250 Portuguese leagues would bring us to the kingdom of Benguela, or that of Jaa Caconda, about lat. 14 deg. or 15 deg. S. Yet some persons have strangely supposed that this king _Organe_ or _Ogane_ was a corruption of _Jan_ or _Janhoi_, the title given by the Christians of the east to the king of Abyssinia. "But it is very difficult to account for this knowledge of Abyssinia in the kingdom of Benin, not only on account of the distance, but likewise because several of the most savage nations in the world, the _Galla_ and _Shangalla_, occupy the intervening space.

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