[ Manuel Cerveira Pereira carries on the war. ]
After we had been two months in the country of Angoykayongo we marched towards Cambambe, which was but three days’ journey, and came right against the Serras da Prata, and passed the river Coanza, and presently overran the country, and built a fort hard by the riverside. Here I served two years.
They opened the silver-mines, but the Portugals did not like of them as yet, because they yielded small share of silver.119
This new upstart governor was very cruel to his soldiers, so that all his voluntary men left him; and by this means he could go no further.
At this time there came news by the Jesuits that the Queen of England was dead, and that King James had made peace with Spain.120 Then I made a petition to the Governor, who granted me licence to go into my country; and so I departed with the Governor and his train to the city of St. Paul. But he left five hundred soldiers in the fort of Cambambe, which they hold still.121