_ 29 _ Afonso, who had spent a lot of time in Manicongo, to go ashore with another man, where they were given a great welcome. The captain-major sent the chief a jacket, some red trousers, a Moorish hood and a bracelet. The latter told him that he would be more than pleased to give him anything he needed in his country. That was how Martim Afonso understood it. That night Martim Afonso and another man went with the chief to sleep in his village, and we returned to our ships. As the latter was walking along the road he put on the clothes they had given him and he said with great satisfaction to those who had come to meet him: "Do you see what they gave me?" And they showed their pleasure by clapping their hands. They repeated this three times until he arrived at the village, where he wandered about everywhere, dressed up as he was, until he entered his house. He gave orders for the two men to be lodged and they went with him into a compound where he ordered corn porridge for them, as there is a lot in that country, and a chicken like those in Portugal. Then crowds of men and women came to stare at them the whole night long. When morning came, the chief went to see them and he told them to leave. He sent two men with them and gave them chickens for the captain-major, explaining that
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