The Strange Adventures of Andrew Battell, of Leigh, in Angola and the Adjoining Regions

Note 193 — THE STRANGE ADVENTURES OF ANDREW BATTELL OF LEIGH IN ESSEX, SENT BY THE PORTUGALS PRISONER TO ANGOLA, WHO LIVED THERE, AND IN THE ADJOINING REGIONS, NEAR EIGHTEEN YEARS.

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Tandale, in Kimbundu, means councillor or minister of a soba or kinglet; tumba’ndala was an old title of the Kings of Angola, and may be translated Emperor (Cordeiro da Matta, Diccionario).

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