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neither hands to labor nor to fight for them. It was just 

 the story of the goose and the golden egg. The coifee 

 and sugar plantations and gold-washings were abandoned, 

 because the labor had been exported to the Brazils. Many 

 of the Portuguese then followed their slaves, and the 

 Government was obliged to pass a law to prevent further 

 emigration, which, had it gone on, would have depopu- 

 lated the Portuguese possessions altogether. A clever 

 man of Asiatic (Goa) and Portuguese extraction, called 

 Nyaude, now built a stockade at the confluence of the 

 Luenya and Zambesi; and, when the commandant of Tete 

 Bent an officer with his company to summon him to his 

 presence, Nyaude asked permission of the officer to dress 

 himself, which being granted, he went into an inner apart- 

 ment, and the officer ordered his men to pile their arms. 

 A drum of war began to beat a note which is well known 

 to the inhabitants. Some of the soldiers took the alarm 

 on hearing this note; but the officer, disregarding their 

 warning, was, with his whole party, in a few minutes dis- 

 armed and bound hand and foot. The commandant of 

 Tete then armed the whole body of slaves and marched 

 against the stockade of Nyaude; but when they came near 

 to it there was the Luenya still to cross. As they did not 

 effect this speedily, Nyaude despatched a strong party 

 under his son Bonga across the river below the stockade, 

 and up the left bank of the Zambesi until they came near 

 to Tete. They then attacked Tete, which was wholly un- 

 defended save by a few soldiers in the fort, plundered and 

 burned the whole town except the house of the command- 

 ant and a few others, with the church and fort. The 

 women and children fled into the church ; and it is a re- 

 markable fact that none of the natives of this region will 

 ever attack a church. Having rendered Tete a ruin, Bonga 

 carried off all the cattle and plunder to his father. News 

 of this having been brought to the army before the stock- 

 ade, a sudden panic dispersed the whole; and, as the fugi- 

 tives took roundabout ways in their flight, Katolosa, who 



