mwani

Updated: May 2, 2025

He erected a stone pillar at the mouth of the river, which accordingly took the title of Rio de Padrao, and established friendly relations with the natives, who reported that the country was subject to a great monarch, Mwani Congo or lord of Congo, resident at Bonza Congo. The Portuguese were not long in making themselves influential in the country.

Various - Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1

At the confluence, tree- dots, tipping the watery marge, denoted what Barbot calls the "Pongo Islands." It was so called because held by the Mwani-pongo, who was to this region what the Mwani- congo was farther south. The palace was large but very mean, a shell of woven reeds roofed with banana leaves: the people, then mere savages, called their St.

Sir Richard Francis Burton - Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 1