SOUTH AFRICAN 



QUARTERLY JOURNAL, 



SBCOND SERIES. 



No. 3. APRIL— JUNE, 1834. ~Part 2. 



A Sketch of the Prop-ess and present State of Geographi- 

 cal Discovery in the African Continent, made from the 

 Colony of the Cape of Good Hope. — By J. C. Chase. 



[Continued from page 206, and concluded.] 



Delagoa Bay, the most southern possession of the Portu- 

 guese Government on the eastern side of Africa, as fixed by the 

 treaty of the year 1825, is too well known to require particular 

 description here. It has been occupied by several nations at 

 different times, but without success ; and its only pertinacious 

 masters, the Portuguese, hold, it is evident, a very insecure 

 tenure of the place, being frequently obliged to shut them- 

 selves up in their miserable and ruinous Fort, as a protection 

 against the warlike savages irritated by constant ill-treatment ; 

 so late as the year 1824, a party, with the Governor, 50 dis- 

 ciplined soldiers, and 300 men, were cut off by a popular 

 Chief. 



The natives of Delagoa Bay are called by the Zulos 

 Amacluancjas, from whom, in language and manners, they 

 materially differ ; but from Delagoa Bay to Sofala the people 

 appear to be of one common stock. 



The country south of the Mapoota, called Inyack, is under 

 the authority of a powerful native Chief named Macassanie, 

 who, assisted and instigated by the Portuguese, keep up a con- 

 stant warfare with his neighbours of Tembe, situated on the 

 north of the same stream. The King of this district was 

 Myetta, who, in consequence of the insults and oppressions 

 of the Portuguese, and the inroads of Macassanie's warriors, 

 ceded his dominions to Great Britain, in the hopes of pro- 

 tection, in March 1823, while H. M. Ship the Leven was in the 

 Bay ; this act proved fatal to himself and countrymen, for as 

 soon as Commodore Owen, commanding that vessel, had left 

 he was again attacked, himself and many of his people, 

 put to death, and almost all the remainder sold into slavery, 

 at the instigation of the Portugueze — at the fort. 



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