Unlike his father, he is described as a monster of cruelty, and, happily for his subjects, his reign was of short duration. Nevertheless he was buried with great magnificence ; and, according to the barbarous custom of the country, a mount was erected over his grave, fill ed with the bones of human victims who had been sacri ficed to his manes.
He was succeeded by Ngola Chilvagni, a warlike and cruel prince, who carried his victorious arms within a few leagues of Loando San Paulo, where, as if tired of conquest, he caused a tree to be planted as a boundary to his ravages ; and near to it, on the banks of the Coanza, the Portuguese afterwards erected a fortress. Intox icated with success, he fancied himself a god, and claim ed divine honours ; but death soon proved him not ex empt from the great law of mortality, and he died with out a child to perpetuate his memory.
Ngingha Angola was elected his successor, a prince of so cruel a disposition, that all his subjects wished for his death, which, happily for them, soon arrived : never theless, he was buried with the usual pomp, and with the usual number of human sacrifices.
His son and successor, Bandi Angola, discovered a disposition even more cruel than his father's, which ex cited a general insurrection among his subjects, who called in the neighbouring Giagas to their assistance. Terrified at the approach of these cannibals, he applied for assistance to the king of Congo, who, no less alarm ed at the prospect of a visit from them, considered their expulsion as a common cause. He therefore ordered 500 Portuguese troops, then residing at his court, to gether with about double that number of his own, to march to the assistance of the king of Angola. This army attacked, and defeated, with dreadful slaughter, no fewer than 120,000 of the enemy. Such is the su periority of military discipline and armour, though op posed by superior numbers, destitute of these advan tages ! This signal deliverance made so deep an im pression on the king, that he immediately took the Portuguese troops into his service, and even admitted them to his counsels. The Portuguese general became his chief favourite and confidant : but an event soon oc curred, which converted the monarch's gratitude into the opposite passions of jealousy and fear. Having dis covered that his daughter cherished a tender passion for this deliverer of her country, not less on account of the gracefulness of his person, than the valour of his arms, the jealous king, forgetful of the obligations re cently conferred upon him, hastily adopted the resolu tion of extirpating, not only his brave deliverers, but -also the whole of the Portuguese resident in his king dom, as the only means of preventing himself from being dethroned, and his people from being subjected to a foreign' yoke.
Of that desperate resolution the princess lost no time in advising her favourite, who deemed it necessary to make a speedy retreat with his troops to the kingdom of Congo. He found no difficulty in persuading that mon arch of the perfidy of his neighbouring sovereign ; and he immediately returned to his own country, under the ostensible pretence of procuring troops to assist the king of Congo in a war which he waged with a neigh bouring state, but for the real purpose of taking ven geance on the perfidious king of Angola. Having laid the whole case before the court of Lisbon, and having strongly urged the great benefit that would result to the Portuguese government, from the reduction of the ex tensive territory of Angola, a great armament was speedily fitted out, and provided with every thing neces sary both for carrying on an extensive war, and for erecting fortresses ; and he was appointed to the com mand of the expedition. To secure the friendship of the king of Congo, he was also supplied with rich pre sents to that monarch and his ministers. At the head of this squadron he sailed up the Coanza without opposi tion, nearly as far as the city Massingano, where his troops landed, and built a strong fortress on very advan tageous ground. As soon as the king of Angola was apprized of their hostile intentions, he attacked them with a strong body of troops, who, as might be supposed, were dispersed with great slaughter, and many made prisoners, and condemned to the usual punishment of slavery. Following up this important victory, the Por tuguese general carried fire and sword through the whole country; and neglected not to make himself mas ter of every place, the possession of which could in any measure contribute to his plan of subjugating the king dom. In the meantime this victory served to inflame the hatred of the Angolans against their long detested sovereign, who, instead of attempting to conciliate their affections, seemed, by his unbounded rapacity and extor tion, to wish to revenge, upon his own subjects, the de feat which he had sustained. Resolved to rid them selves of the tyrant, they drew him from his security, by pretending to appear in arms for his defence ; but ay soon as he went out to meet them, in order to put him self at their head, they contrived to separate him front his guards, surrounded him, and cut him to peices. He left several children, of whom one, named Ngola Bandi, was by a party in the kingdom, raised to the throne ; although, his mother having been a slave, he should on that account, by the laws of the kingdom, have been ex cluded from the succession.