having seen a bishop, churches and images of saints, European soldiers and forts, multistorey houses, European kitchenware being used in her home and her European grandfather inoculating his grandchildren against smallpox; and having known of European schools - she had doubtless been attending one before her capture (Lovejoy, 2010, p. 5; Lovejoy, 2011). She did not name the forts but according to Lovejoy (2010, p. 5) they were likely to have been the Fortaleza de São Pedro da Barra and the Fortaleza São Miguel; ${ }^{4}$ as to her recollection of another, on an island opposite the harbour, while there was indeed a sandbar or breakwater called Ilha da Luanda creating a channel of calm in front of the harbour, it was not a fort but an arsenal and a fishing village that were located there.  
Ngeve would also recall a one-day journey to visit a plantation, first by boat and then:  
The last part of the way was by ox-drawn wagon and she slept along the way in a little village. On the plantation there was a lovely European house, where trading was carried on. She was there for fourteen days. Every morning she saw ice, snow, and frost in the [...] snow-covered mountains. She also saw zebras and elephants. Oranges, figs, mangoes, and foreign corn ${ }^{5}$ grow there (Lovejoy, 2010, p. 5).