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gin in return. He had heard that Livingstone had 

 been killed at night while asleep. At 5 p.m we reach- 

 ed Senna, and anchored under the residence of Senhor 

 Ferrao, whom we found uncommonly civil. He sup- 

 plied us with everything we wanted, and promised to 

 send a hundred men up to Chibisa should we require 

 them, to carry our things past the cataracts. He also 

 gave us a very good dinner, and as a friend of his spoke 

 a little Hindustanee, we manage to pull through, as- 

 sisted by Antonio's mterpretations of the Portuguese 

 language. Ferrao informed us that the Mavite had 

 just defeated the Portuguese troops at Tette, killed a 

 great number of them, and taken the governor pri- 

 soner; and I was subsequently credibly informed they 

 had cut that individual's throat. 



Tette is in 16^ 10^ S. lat., and about 33^ 37' E. 

 long., on the Zambesi, and only about seventy-five 

 miles in a straight line from Chibisa, where we wanted 

 to take our boat asunder. Mr. Young went to the 

 other side of the river next morning, to deliver his let- 

 ters, and while he was away I was informed by the 

 natives that there was " a new river," which ran from 

 the Zambesi into the Shire, joining the latter at Mo- 

 rumballa Mount. 



On Mr. Young's return, I reported this to him, with 

 a request that if he did not think it advisable to explore 

 it himself, he would permit me to do so with my boat; 

 as in the event of its proving* navigable we should 

 avoid a long pull up the Shire from its confluence 

 with the Zambesi, to Morumballa. He decided 

 that all the party should try and go by this new 

 route. 



