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facts, now fully apparent, that his discoveries had only 

 stimulated the activity of the slave-traders, that the Portu- 

 guese local authorities really promoted slave-trading, with 

 its inevitable concomitant slave-hunting, and that the 

 horror and desolation to which the country bore such 

 frightful testimony was the result. It seemed as if the duel 

 he had fought with the Boers when they determined to 

 close Africa, and he determined to open it, had now to 

 be repeated with the Portuguese. The attention of Dr. 

 Livingstone is more and more concentrated on this 

 terrible topic. Dr. Kirk writes to him that when at 

 Tette he had heard that the Portuguese Governor-General 

 at Mozambique had instructed his brother, the Governor 

 of that town, to act on the principle that the slave-trade, 

 though prohibited on the ocean, was still lawful on the 

 land, and that any persons interfering with slave-traders, 

 by liberating their slaves, would be counted robbers. 

 An energetic despatch to Earl Russell, then Foreign 

 Secretary, calls attention to this outrage. 



A few days after, a strong but polite letter is sent to 

 the Governor of Tette, calling attention to the forays of a 

 man named Belshore, in the Chibisa country, and entreat- 

 ing him to stop them. About the same time he writes to 

 the Governor- General of Mozambique in reply to a paper 

 by the Viscount de Sa da Bandeira, published in the 

 Almanac by the Government press, in which the common 

 charge was made against him of arrogating to himself the 

 glory of discoveries which belonged to Senhor Candido 

 and other Portuguese. He affirms that before publishing 

 his book he examined all Portuguese books of travels he 

 could find ; that he had actually shown Senhor Candido 

 to have been a discoverer before any Portuguese hinted 

 that he was such ; that the lake which Candido spoke of as 

 north-west of Tette could not be Nyassa, which was north- 

 east of it ; that he did full justice to all the Portuguese 

 exjilorers, and that what he claimed as his own discoveries 



