matt oerftnien*) mürbe, raenn man eS magen rooEte, iljn
gu burcfjroaten."
Oie ^etmtfcfien Sagen an ber 8oango=®üfte beuten auf
eine frühere Oberijerrlicliieit**) beS ÄönigS non Äongo, bie
ft<f> roeit nad) korben erftrecft gu Ifaben fd&eint. AIS bie
Unabiiangigfeit eintrat, foE Soango eine Art ©uprematie
über bie beiben 9^aif)barfonigreicfje (Äafongo unb Angop)
befeffen f)aben, aber ber erfte Äönig mirb roieber auS
iongo tjergeteitet, ba§ fcfjott im 5Jtamen feine Schiebungen
*) SSon SDfufemo (of Songo) fyot'te Soelle, „that natives often
go over from Benguela to Mozambique, which takes them three
months, but that white people cannot go, because there is so
much sand on the way th a t it reaches up to the knee in the
dry session. The road passes through a large country, inhabited
by a dwarfish people, not exceeding four feet in height, who
are never bought by the Portuguese on account of their short
stature.“
**) Other lords there are, that border upon the king of
Loango, who was sometime subject to the king of Congo, but in
processe of time, he became a free lord, and now professeth to
bee in amitie with the king of Congo, but not to be his vassall.
The people th a t are under these Lords in those borders, are
called the Bramas and. they reach within the land under the
Equinoctial! line towards the East, to the bounds of Anzicana,
all along the mountains, which divide them from the Anzichi
upon the North. They are called by the people of Loango: Con-
greamolal, because they were subject to Congo (f. fPurdjwg). The
people are called Bramas, the king Mani-Lovango (in ter •pauptftabt
SBuri obcr ?uri>. „The inhabitants pretend tha t their ancestors
were called Bramas“ (93orrbitd?). Asycaman is the capital of
Braman (on the gold coastb 2>er ffikin au8 ber Ucfytnta^alme ober
(i. Sgurton) 'JMiuca-lLlnie (Aiefciqua) (eijjt ©ura (6ei Saceita) tm Siattb
;be? GEajemb.
gu Äongo beroeift. AIS bie nocf) milben unb (mie bie $agaS)
cannibalifdfen ©ingeborenen, bie „an SrofiteS fiat Sana=
nanen gebraust unb gur jgufoft, maS fie in ben Süfdjen
fingen" (gleicf) ben Mapumbe), nact) ben Kriegen beS
Mani=fiooango (aus jgerri in itafongo entfproffen), ber ficf)
in ber fpauptftabt non ißiri feftfeiste (unb bann bie Muoirer
in Sooangiri be^errfcfite), unter biefem oereint maren, tt) eilte
er baS Sanb unter feine Seute auS unb feiste in ben bebeu=
tenbften Orten feine S r üb er unb ©cfjroeftern ein (f. Oapper),
roorin alfo ber • in eigener Serroanbtfdfaft abgefc^ioffene
©tanb ber gume feine ©rilärung fänbe (gumal bei ber
großen galjl non grauen, bie trabitioneE bem ®onig oon
Soango gugefc^rieben mirb).
Sieben Soango beroaljrte fid) baib itaiongo eine fetbfi=
ftänbige ©teEung, unb oon Äafongo macfjte ftcE) ber mit
einter Mulattin oer^eiratijete Mani in Angop (f. MeroEa)
unabhängig. Sei ber Eroberung Angop’S (©oi’S) burd)
ben ©rafen oon ©onijo (1631) mürbe beffen ©ot)n als
Äönig eingefe^t. Oie Abtrennung Soango’S oon Äongo
unter einem gürften beS 8epi=©tammeS mirb in1S ^ a ^ r
1579 gefegt (f. Sreitenbaud)).
SatteE ergabt oon bem Äönig ©embe in Soango,
bafj er niemals bei Oage gerebet, fonbern ftetS in ber
Etadjt (but alwayes in the night), unb and) ber §oEan=
bifd§e ©efanbte (1642) mürbe bei Sftaäjt in ben ißalaft
beS congeftfdien £önigS eingefü§rt. ©auaggi berietet oon
ben Seiet)rungSerfolgen beS Ä'apuginerS Ungaro in Soango