262 DELAGOA BAY. 



I could have cried aloud with disgust and 

 disappointment, but resigned myself to the in- 

 evitable, and galloped home fully realising the 

 truth of the old saying that " one man's meat is 

 another man's poison." 



I am always regretting that I have never 

 been able to travel in the interior of this coast 

 as I should have wished, and to describe the 

 various rivers and places instead of only men- 

 tioning their names, so in conclusion I add a 

 short description of a trip up the coast as far as 

 Mozambique in 1877, written by my husband 

 for the Natal Colonist of May 25th, 1877, aQ d 

 the more interesting because after more than a 

 decade of years so very little is altered. The 

 foot-notes are mine. 



" The importance of the Portuguese posses- 

 sions on the East Coast in relation to the 

 different questions of the industrial development 

 of Africa, the abolition of the slave trade, and 

 the civilisation of the varied tribes now engag- 

 ing the attention of Europe, may render inte- 

 resting to some of your readers the following 



