Identifier: pioneersinsoutha00johnuoft (find matches)
Title: Pioneers in South Africa
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Johnston, Harry Hamilton, Sir, 1858-1927
Subjects: South Africa -- Discovery and exploration South Africa -- Description and travel
Publisher: London Blackie
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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Portuguese in South Central Africa 103 Diogo Cam, and a second expedition under that greatcommander had ascended the Congo River in 1485, andat the highest point they could reach, nearest to the im-passable Yelala Falls, had inscribed on the rocks therecord of their achievement. Diogo Cam took away withhim to Portugal a few Congo natives, who were baptizedand really became convinced Christians. In 1491 thesepeople returned to the Congo with Roderiga de Souza,who brought with him a large number of Portuguesemissionaries to convert the kingdom of Kongo to Chris-tianity. This Portuguese expedition proceeded inlandabout 200 miles, till it reached the capital of the kingdomof Kongo, Mbanza Kongo, which was forthwith namedSao Salvador. Here the king and his principal wife werebaptized with the names of the then King and Queen ofPortugal, Joao and Leonora, while their eldest son waschristened Affonso. Early in the sixteenth century anative of Kongo was actually consecrated as Bishop ofthe Ko

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