140 "^^oy^^U^ of the Novara. 



negroes, who, in 1852, had been smuggled in a '* slaver" from 

 the east coast of Africa into Brazil, there to be sold as slaves, 

 despite the interdicts against the introduction of slaves, then 

 actually in force. The vessel was, however, captured by the 

 Brazilian cruisers, and the negroes forthwith restored to liberty, 

 when, in their own interest, and with the view of preventing 

 their being a second time sold into bondage, they were removed 

 to a quarter of the prison away from the rest, and specially 

 set apart for what are called " free Africans," where they had 

 been carefully educated and instructed in various handicrafts, 

 all at the expense of the State. As a vocabulary of the idioms 

 spoken by the Mozambique negroes, was an especial deside- 

 ratum of the class of philosophic history in our Imperial 

 Academy of Sciences, and there seemed to be but little 

 prospect of our expedition visiting the eastern coast of 

 Africa, we gladly availed ourselves of this unexpected 

 opportunity to compile the wished-for vocabulary, in which 

 Professor Portoalegre, Director of the Academy of Fine 

 Arts, materially assisted us. Two of these negroes, Camillo 

 and Ventura, were born in Quillimani, and belonged to the 

 Mananpi race ; the third, Jeremias, was born about sixty 

 days' journey from the coast, of the Maqua race, and spoke 

 a dialect of the Mozambique idiom. Ventura, a youth 

 of, at the outside, seventeen years of age, related that he 

 could perfectly remember having been stolen one night from 

 his parents in Quillimani, when he was brought to a slave- 

 dealer named Jones, after which he was shipped off in a 



