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and the golden egg. The coffee and sugar planta- 

 tions and gold-washings were abandoned, because 

 the labour had been exported to the Brazils. Many 

 of the Portuguese then followed their slaves, and 

 the Government was obliged to pass a law to pre- 

 vent further emigration, which, had it gone on, 

 would have depopulated the Portuguese possessions 

 altogether. 



" Rebellion followed closely on the decrease of 

 the Portuguese establishments. A man of Asiatic 

 and Portuguese extraction, called Nyaude, built a 

 stockade at the confluence of the Luenya and 

 Zambesi ; the commandant of Tete armed the 

 whole body of slaves and marched against this 

 stockade, but, when they approached, Nyaude 

 despatched a strong party under his son up the left 

 bank of the Zambesi, which attacked Tete, and 

 plundered and burned the whole town except the 

 house of the commandant and a few others, with the 

 church and fort. 



" Having rendered Tete a ruin, Bonga carried 

 offall the cattle and plunder to his father. News of 

 this having been brought to the army before the 

 stockade, a sudden panic dispersed the whole ; and as 

 the fugitives took a roundabout course in their flight, 

 Katolosa, who had hitherto pretended to be friendly 

 with the Portuguese, sent out his men to capture as 

 many of them as he could. Another half-caste, 

 called Kisaka, on the opposite bank of the river, 



