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Title:Sources on early Sierra Leone: (19) Barreira's report 1607-1608 - the deeds of King Pedro, alias Tora
Author:Hair, P.E.H.ISNI
Year:1982
Periodical:Africana Research Bulletin
Volume:12
Issue:1-2
Pages:55-97
Language:English
Geographic term:Sierra Leone
Subject:historical sources
Abstract:The report by Father Baltasar Barreira on the activities of the Jesuit mission at Sierra Leone during 1607-1608 has already been discussed in Africana Res. Bull., 8 (1978), 2/3, p. 64-108 (first section of the report, on the visit to Bena, and a chronology of the mission up to 1608). This chronology was extended to 1617 and the end of the mission described in Africana Res. Bull., 11 (1981), 1/2, p. 92-140, In the present paper a translation is presented of the report's second and middle section. In this section the two missionaries - Father Barreira having been joined in mid-1607 by Father Manuel Alvares - complete the conversion of a ruler whose kingdom lay within the Sierra Leone estuary, 'King Tora', and.of his relatives and household. Tora whose kingdom spanned the islands in the upper estuary and part of the neighbouring coast to the NE, had been first contacted at the end of 1605 and a church had been built on Pepel Island. Tora's baptism has been delayed until February 1607, when he became 'King Pedro'. Notes.
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