Chap. IX , § I.—Angola.
[ The Slave Trade. ]
MASTER THOMAS TURNER, one that had lived a long time in Brasil, and had also been at Angola, reported to me207 that it was supposed eight and twenty thousand slaves (a number almost incredible, yet such as the Portugals told him) were yearly shipped from Angola and Congo, at the Haven of Loanda.208 He named to me a rich Portugal in Brasil, which had ten thousand of his own, working in his Ingenios209 (of which he had eighteen) and in his other employments. His name was John du Paus, exiled from Portugal, and thus enriched in Brasil.210 A thousand of his slaves at one time entered into conspiracy with nine thousand other slaves in the country, and barricaded themselves for their best defence against their master, who had much ado to reduce some of them into their former servitude.