b'32 NYAUDE AND KISAKA. Chap. XXXI. 



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 half-caste from Macao, called Kisaka or Choutama, on 

 the opposite bank of the river, likewise rebelled His father 

 having died, he imagined that he had been bewitched by the 

 Portuguese, and he therefore plundered and burnt all the planta- 

 tions of the rich merchants of Tete on the north bank. As I 

 have before remarked, that bank is the most fertile, and there the 

 Portuguese 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 also Avas unsuccessful, and he has lately been 

 pardoned by the home Government. One 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 

 enemies, 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 Zambesi, 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 Portuguese 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 over- 

 land route along the north bank of the Zambesi. The mother 

 country did not in these " Caffre 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, 

 having great influence among the natives from his good character, 

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



