Tomé and Angola (from 1470 and 1575 respectively) and there were close family, commercial and shipping ties between the neighbouring colonies.  
Ngeve and two other children were seduced by the sailors' enticement of sweets but the cousin ran away; just an eight-year-old schoolboy, he was nevertheless more suspicious of the strangers than those who fell for the blandishments; perhaps he had heard tell of men capturing and carrying away the inhabitants of his country. The girls, struggling to escape their captors, were put aboard the sailors' boat and taken to the schooner where, in the captain's quarters, they encountered a mulatto woman who acted as interpreter between them and the crew - she was crying inconsolably, no doubt because of being forced to provide other services to the captain, which might be why the children found themselves confined in casks from time to time.