Identifier: historyofafricas01thea (find matches)
Title: History of Africa south of the Zambesi : from the settlement of the Portuguese at Sofala in September 1505 to the conquest of the Cape Colony by the British in September 1795
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Theal, George McCall, 1837-1919
Subjects: Ethnology Portuguese
Publisher: London : G. Allen & Unwin ltd.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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y a multitude of the sub-chiefs andothers. On the 4th of August 1652 these were all receivedinto the church, the mouomotapa taking the name Domingosand his great wife Luiza. The intelligence of this eventcreated a joyful sensation in Europe. At Rome the master-general of the order caused special services to be held, andhad an account of the baptism engraved in the Latinlanguage on a bronze plate. At the Dominican convent inLisbon there was a grand thanksgiving service, which wasattended by King Joao IV and all his court, for the eventwas regarded as one of the greatest triumphs of Christianity,as well as a consolidation of Portuguese rule in SouthAfrica. Such an opinion, however, was altogether erroneous, forin this same year, 1652, the Dutch East India Companyformed a settlement in Table Valley, which was destinedto have a vastly greater effect upon the southern portionof the continent than the Portuguese occupation of theeastern coast, that had now lasted nearly a century and ahal£
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BAPTISM OF THE MONOMOTAPA Photograph from a picture in the Dominican House, Rome CHAPTEE XIX. WEAKNESS OF PORTUGUESE RULE IN SOUTH AFRICA. The Portuguese dependencies on the eastern coast of Africa below the Zambesi were already exhibiting all the marks of decrepitude and decay. The Portuguese nation was almost exhausted, the blood of the peasantry in its southern provinces had become degraded, and the chief sources of its wealth were for ever lost. This condition of things in the kingdom itself was reflected in its dependencies over sea, and in none of them to a greater extent than in those treated of in these volumes. King Joao IV, the first monarch of the house of Braganca, died on the 6th of November 1656, leaving a son named Affonso, only thirteen years of age, heir to the throne. The queen dowager, a woman of unusual ability and force of character, then became regent, and held that office until the 21st of June 1662, when Affonso VI became king. His sister, Catherine of Braganca

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