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friendly with the Portuguese, sent out his men to capture as many 

 of them as they could. They killed many for the sake of their 

 arms. This is the account which both natives and Portuguese 

 give of the affair. 



Another halt-caste from Macao, called Kisaka or Choutama, on 

 the opposite bank of the river, likewise rebelled. His father hav- 

 ing died, he imagined that he had been bewitched by the Portu- 

 guese, and he therefore plundered and burned all the plantations 

 of the rich merchants of Tete on the north bank. As I have be- 

 fore remarked, that bank is the most fertile, and there the Portu- 

 guese had. their villas and plantations to which they daily retired 

 from Tete. When these were destroyed the Tete people were 

 completely impoverished. An attempt was made to punish this 

 rebel, but it was also unsuccessful, and he has lately been par- 

 doned by the home government. One 1 point in the narrative of 

 this expedition is interesting. They came to a field of sugar-cane 

 so large that 4000 men eating it during two days did not finish 

 the whole. The Portuguese were thus placed between two ene- 

 mies, Nyaude on the right bank and Kisaka on the left, and not 

 only so, but Nyaude, having placed his stockade on the point of 

 land on the right banks of both the Luenya and Zambesi, and 

 washed by both these rivers, could prevent intercourse with the 

 sea. The Luenya rushes into the Zambesi with great force when 

 the latter is low, and, in coming up the Zambesi, boats must cross 

 it and the Luenya separately, even going a little way up that river, 

 so as not to be driven away by its current in the bed of the Zam- 

 besi, and dashed on the rock which stands on the opposite shore. 

 In coming up to the Luenya for this purpose, all boats and canoes 

 came close to the stockade to be robbed. Nyaude kept the Por- 

 tuguese 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. The 

 mother country did not in these " Cafrre wars" pay the bills, so 

 no one either became rich or blamed the missionaries. 



The merchants were unable to engage in trade, and commerce, 

 which the slave-trade had rendered stagnant, was now completely 

 obstructed. The present commandant of Tete, Major Sicard, hav- 

 ing great influence among the natives, from his good character, 

 put a stop to the war more than once by his mere presence on 



