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The king of this place was named _Diacomena_, and they here learnt that
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S. The king of this place was named _Diacomena_, and they here learnt that there were Portuguese on the opposite coast who had been cast away, and now herded cattle for their subsistence.

They said likewise that the Hollanders had been three times at their port, and had left them four musketeers with whose assistance they had made war upon their enemies. On some trees there were several inscriptions, among which were the following. _Christophorus Neoportus Anglus Cap_. and on another _Dominus Robertus Scherleius Comes, Legatus Regis Persarum_.

[Footnote 10: It is singular that the large circular bay of Mansitare in lat. 19 deg. 30' S. is not named, although probably meant by the river _Mane_ in the text. - E.]

[Footnote 11: Now called Ranoumanthe, discharging its waters into the bay of St Vincents. - E.]

[Footnote 12: Now Port St James. - E.]

In the latitude of 25 deg. S. they entered a port which they named St Augustine[13] in a kingdom called _Vavalinta_, of which a _Buque_ named _Diamacrinale_ was king, who no sooner saw the Portuguese than he asked if these were some of the men from the other coast. This confirmed the stories they had formerly heard respecting the Portuguese, and they were here informed that the place at which they dwelt was only six days sail from that place. In September they got sight of Cape _Romain_ or St _Mary_ the most southern point of Madagascar, where they spent 40 days in stormy weather, and on St Lukes day, 18th October, they entered the port of that name in the kingdom of Enseroe. The natives said that there were white people who wore crosses, only at the distance of half a days journey, who had a large town, and _Randumana_ the king came on board the caravel, and sent one of his subjects with a Portuguese to shew him where these white people dwelt, but the black ran away when only half way.

[Footnote 13: In lat. 23 deg. 30' or directly under the tropic of Capricorn, is a bay now called St Augustine. If that in the text, the latitude 1s erroneous a degree and a half. - E.]

Among others of the natives who came to this place to trade with the Portuguese, was a king named _Bruto Chembanga_ with above 500 fighting men. His sons were almost white, with long hair, wearing gowns and breeches of cotton of several colours with silver buttons and bracelets and several ornaments of gold, set with pearls and coral. The territory of this king was named _Matacassi_, bordering on _Enseroe_ to the west. He said that the Portuguese were all dead, who not far from that place had built a town of stone houses, where they worshipped the cross, on the foot or pedestal of which were unknown characters. He drew representations of all these things on the sand, and demanded a high reward for his intelligence. Some of his people wore crosses, and informed the Portuguese that there were two ships belonging to the Hollanders in port _St Lucia_ or _Mangascafe_. In a small island at this place there was found a _square stone fort_[14], and at the foot of it the arms of Portugal were carved on a piece of marble, with this inscription

REX PORTUGALENSIS O S.

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