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likewise rebelled. He imagined that his father had 

 been bewitched by the Portuguese, and he therefore 

 plundered all the plantations of the rich merchants 

 of Tete on the north bank, which is the most 

 fertile, and on which the Portuguese had their villas. 

 When these were destroyed, the Tete people were 

 completely impoverished. An attempt to punish 

 this rebel proved unsuccessful, and he has lately 

 been pardoned by the Home Government. The 

 Portuguese were thus placed between two enemies. 

 Nyaude on the right and Kisaka on the left, the 

 former of whom having placed his stockade on the 

 point of land on the right banks of both the Luenya 

 and Zambesi could prevent intercourse with the 

 sea. The Luenya rushes with great force into the 

 Zambesi when it is low, and in ascending the 

 Zambesi boats must even go a little way up the 

 former river, so as not to be carried away by its 

 currents, and dashed on the rock which stands on 

 the opposite shore of the Zambesi. In coming up 

 to the Luenya for this purpose all boats and canoes 

 that came close to the stockade were robbed. 

 Nyaude kept the Portuguese shut up in their fort at 

 Tete during two years, and they could only get 

 goods sufficient to buy food by sending to Kilimane 

 by an overland route along the north bank of the 

 Zambesi. Commerce, which the slave trade had 

 rendered stagnant, was now completely obstructed. 

 The present commandant of Tete, Major Licard 



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