. The story of Africa and its explorers. REV. GEORGE GRENFELL. (From a Photograpli by T. Leiois, Bimingham.) to have increased so rapidly that in 1534there were a cathedral and several churchesin the town, and a bishop presiding over thefaithful. Thirty-six years later, in the in-cursions of the Jaggas, Giagas, or Yakas (, p. 116), probably wandering Zulus, whomurdered and destroyed everything, the cityof San Salvador was ruined, and the king,court, and clergy had to take refuge onone of the islands in the Congo, from which f Pigafetta, Relatione del Eeaume di Congo et dellecirconvicaine
. The story of Africa and its explorers. REV. GEORGE GRENFELL. (From a Photograpli by T. Leiois, Bimingham.) to have increased so rapidly that in 1534there were a cathedral and several churchesin the town, and a bishop presiding over thefaithful. Thirty-six years later, in the in-cursions of the Jaggas, Giagas, or Yakas (, p. 116), probably wandering Zulus, whomurdered and destroyed everything, the cityof San Salvador was ruined, and the king,court, and clergy had to take refuge onone of the islands in the Congo, from which f Pigafetta, Relatione del Eeaume di Congo et dellecirconvicaine con trade, etc. (irjitl) ; Odoardo Lopez,Report of the Kingdorae of Congo, a Region of Africa,etc., translated by Abraham Hartwell (151)7) ; De Tovai,• Mission Evangelica al Regno de Congo (1649), etc. 12( THE STORY OF -•&- ^ In 1873 thelate LieutenantGrandy, (, p. 281), passedthrough the town ona somewhat futilesearch for Dr. Liying- COXGO STEAilER PEACE.{From a Photograph by the Rev. It. D. Darhy.) San Salvador is about one hundred milesdistant. The Giagas being expelled from the country,the town was rebuilt, and most of the kingdomceded to the Portuguese. This arrangementdid not last long; for early in the seventeenthcentury the mission establishment at SanSalvador was broken u]3, owing to the hos-lihty of the natives, and the bishops seattransferred to Sao Paolo de Loanda (Vol. IL,p. 216). In 1781-^about a century and ahalf after the expulsion of the Portuguese—an attempt, alsofrustrated owing | -,.,..»^....„ ...„„ .in,,,,,, , ....i.,), to civil war, Avasmade to reopenthe mission workat San Salvador;but we hear littlemore of the half-mythical townuntil 1857, whenDr. Bastian visitedit, and found thatthis city was only an ordin-ary native town,with a
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