Xiv CONTENTS. 



with the People of Cazembe — One of my Men tossed by a Buffalo — Meet a 

 Man with Jacket and Hat on — Hear of the Portuguese and Native War — 

 Dancing for Corn — Mpende's Hostility — Incantations — A Fight anticipated — ■ 

 Courage and Remarks of my Men — Visit from two old Councillors of Mpende 

 — Their Opinion of the English — Mpende concludes not to fight us — His 

 subsequent Friendship — Aids us to cross the River — Desertion of one of my 

 Men— Meet Native Traders with American Calico — Boroma — Freshets — 

 Leave the River — Loquacious Guide — Nyampungo, the Rain-Charmer — An 

 Old Man— No Silver— Gold- Washing— No Cattle Page 372 



CHAPTER XXX. 



An Elephant-Hunt — Offering and Prayers to the Barimo for Success — Native 

 Mode of Expression — Working of Game-Laws — A Feast — Laughing Hyenas 

 — Numerous Insects — Curious Notes of Birds of Song — Caterpillars — Butter- 

 flies — Silica — The Fruit Makoronga and Elephants— Rhinoceros-Adventure 

 — Honey and Bees'-Wax — Superstitious Reverence for the Lion — Slow Tra- 

 velling — Grapes — The Ue — Monina's Village — Native Names — Suspected of 

 Falsehood — War-Dance — Insanity and Disappearance of Monahin — Fruit- 

 less Search — Monina's Sympathy — The Sand-River Tangwe — The Ordeal 

 Muavi : its Victims — An Unreasonable Man — "Woman's Rights" — Presents 

 — Temperance — A Winding Course to shun Villages — Banyai Complexion 

 and Hair — Mushrooms — The Tubers, Mokuri — The Tree Shekabakadzi — 

 Face of the Country — Pot-Holes — Pursued by a Party of Natives — Unplea- 

 sant Threat — Aroused by a Company of Soldiers — A Civilized Breakfast — 

 Arrival at Tete 387 



CHAPTER XXXI. 



Kind Reception from the Commandant — His Generosity to my Men — The Vil- 

 lage of Tete — The Population — Distilled Spirits — The Fort — Cause of the 

 Decadence of Portuguese Power — Former Trade — Slaves employed in Gold- 

 Washing — Slave-Trade drained the Country of Laborers — The Rebel 

 Nyaude's Stockade — He burns Tete — Extensive Field of Sugarcane — The 

 Commandant's Good Reputation among the Natives — Providential Guidance 

 — Seams of Coal — A Hot Spring — Picturesque Country — Water-Carriage to 

 the Coal-Fields — Workmen's Wages — Exports — Price of Provisions — Visit 

 Gold-Washings — Coal within a Gold-Field — Present from Major Sieard-- 

 Natives raise Wheat, Ac. — Liberality of the Commandant — Geographical 

 Information from Senhor Candido — Earthquakes — Disinterested Kindness 

 of the Portuguese • 405 



CHAPTER XXXII. ' 



Leave Tete and proceed down the River — Pass the Stockade of Bonga — War- 

 Drum at Shiramba — Reach Senna — Its Ruinous State — Landeens levy Fines 

 upon the Inhabitants — Cowardice of Native Militia — Boat-Building at Senna 

 — Our Departure — Fever : its Effects — Kindly received into the House of 

 Colonel Nunes at Kilimane — Forethought of Captain Nolloth and Dr. Walsh 

 — Joy imbittered — Deep Obligations to the Earl of Clarendon, Ac. — De- 

 sirableness of Missionary Societies selecting Healthy Stations — Arrange- 

 ments on leaving my Men — Site of Kilimane — Unhealthiness — Arrival of 

 H.M. Brig " Frolic" — Anxiety of one of my Men to go to England — Rough 

 Passage in the Boats to the Ship — Sekwebu's Alarm — Sail for Mauritius- 

 Sekwebu on board : he becomes insane: drowns himself — Kindness of Major- 

 General C. M. Hay — Escape Shipwreck — Reach Home 420 



Historical Sketch of Discovery in Africa 434 



