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will soon find it desirable to seek other homes where 

 they can practise their rascality. Goa and Macao 

 are both familiar to me ; no one who has visited 

 them, and uses common judgment can, for a moment, 

 deny that both settlements would be infinitely better 

 off without the Portuguese ; in fact, it is indisputably 

 true that it is only Chinese stupidity and dislike to 

 alterations that permit them to remain near Canton, 

 and our own supineness that causes us to tolerate 

 their presence on the peninsula of Hindostan. 



What a change for the worse has come over the 

 descendants of those bold navigators who first 

 doubled the " Cape of Storms " ! Reckless and un- 

 scrupulous they doubtlessly were ; the age they lived 

 in, and want of education made them so, but unques- 

 tionably they possessed one virtue to a pre-eminent 

 degree, bravery, which is almost an unknown 

 quality among the sparse Portuguese population 

 that reside upon these little-known shores. To 

 slavery and slavery alone must be attributed this 

 utter degradation. 



At Lorenzo Marquez a nominal Portuguese 

 Government was found by me to exist, but it was 

 an utter burlesque, and could at any moment have 

 been annihilated by the adjoining native races ; why 

 such was not done is a question I can solve. The 

 Zulu king forbids the Swazis and Secocomi's people 

 from molesting them, for through their (Portuguese) 

 agency he got European goods. Comparing the 



