Carvalho wrote: > In the 1800s, there was a Goan General Manoel Antonio de Souza Goveia > who terrorised the Africans and Arabs alike. -snip- > > Happy Birthday Goveia, you come from a long line of fighting Generals :-) > Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 11:06:24 -0700 (PDT) From: Mervyn Lobo <[email protected]>
Manoel Antonio was one of the worst warlords in Mozambique/Zimbabwe. His war effort lasted less than a decade. After a particular violent rampage, the local tribes, incensed by the rape of teen-aged girls by the warlords troupes, united and killed the warlord. Manoel Antonio's fate? His body and limbs were cut into pieces and distributed to the local witch doctors. Mario observes: Selma, I checked the family history. No way was I related to this moron who was clearly a bad actor. He couldn't even spell the name correctly:-)) The book "The making of Rhodesia" by Hugh Marshall Hole, page 154, says he came to Africa in 1850, was a "Goanese" goonda under the patronage of the Portuguese, terrorized wide areas on the country and "...possessed a harem recruited from the young girls of the native kraals;..." He obviously did not share the common Indian/Goan obsession for fair-skinned women. By contrast, I am a defender of young girls, fair skinned or dark skinned, and, as everyone on Goanet knows by now, my message is one of reason, truth and peace:-)) The only ones who should feel any cyber terror are the clueless, the factless and the illogical, and Christians with delusions of caste, and then, only if they are immune to being educated:-)) Mervyn says General Gouveia ended up as the main course at dinner for a bunch of witch doctors. In http://encyclopedia.jrank.org/GAG_GEO/GAZALAND.html, I found the following, "In 1892 Gouveia was killed in a war with a native chief". They could both be right.
