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brought the hostilities to a conclusion, and enabled 

 d'Anhaya to strengthen his position in Sofala to 

 a point which rendered future aggression, either 

 Arab or native, practically impossible. The native 

 trade in ivory and gold which now passed into 

 Portuguese hands was extremely disappointing. 

 Probably as the outcome of long custom, or pos- 

 sibly due to a shyness of the Portuguese which 

 would be characteristic of the native temperament, 

 the latter insisted on continuing to traffic with the 

 Arabs, and for some years the receipts of the 

 newcomers were barely sufficient to balance expen- 

 diture, although the profits on European merchan- 

 dise are stated to have been enormous. 



In 1531, realising finally that much of the wealth 

 of the Zambezi was probably shipped from the 

 delta of that river, and thence escaped the vigilance 

 of the custodians of the royal goods d^pot at 

 Sofala, a certain Captain Pegado established a 

 trading centre in the midst of a small Arab com- 

 munity, at a place which was afterwards known 

 by the name of Sena, and is still in existence. 

 About this time the settlement of Tete came into 

 being, although the precise date of its adoption as 

 the scene of Portuguese activity has not been 

 handed down to us — the same uncertainty existing 

 with regard to the discovery by the Portuguese of 

 the " Rivers of Cuama," as the mouths of the 

 Zambezi were at that time called. In 1544, 

 Quelimane, or Sao Martinho de Kilimane, as it 

 was then named, sprang into being in the most 

 northerly branch of the Zambezi delta, that stream 

 which had witnessed the arrival of Vasco da Gama 



