CHAPTER XVI. 



ARRIVAL AT TETE. 



Portuguese and the Zambesi — Posterity's Applause — The Explanation of the 

 Outlet— The Kongone— The Bar— The Country— Timidity of Natives— The 

 Fertility of Soil— The Natives' Curiosity— Their Cupidity— The Channel— The 

 Departure of the " Pearl " — The First Work — Mazaro — Excitement — Living- 

 stone's Courage — Mariano's Cruelty — The Zulus — Their Tax — Their Charac- 

 ter, Hospitality, etc. — Zulu Lawyer — Shupanga — The Grave Under the 

 Baobab — Reception at Senna — Senhor Ferraro — Arrival at Tete — " We will 

 Sleep To-night." 



Notwithstanding the expressions of Portuguese sympathy 

 with the growing interest of the civilized world in African dis- 

 covery, they have the credit of studiously preventing, as far as 

 they have been able, under pretence of friendliness, all those 

 expeditions which looked toward the elevation of the natives in 

 the grade of manhood, and avowed their antipathy to the trade 

 in slaves. The care which they have been at to obscure the 

 great eastern pathway toward the heart of the continent is too 

 noticeable and reproachful to escape the remark and censure of 

 one even whose charity was almost a fault sometimes. Dr. 

 Livingstone could not suppress or conceal his impatience when 

 he was satisfied that the cupidity of the nominal occupants and 

 possessors of the Zambesi delta had moved them to practise 

 deliberate deception, by means of maps and published papers, 

 concerning the real entrance of the noble river which they had 

 degraded into a highway for their unlawful and inhuman traffic. 

 It is well known that the " Kwakwa," or " River of Quili- 

 mane," some sixty miles distant from the mouths of the Zam- 

 besi, has long been represented as the principal entrance to that 

 great river; while in fact this "principal entrance" was little 

 more than a natural canal along which slave-boats might pass 

 from the Zambesi to Quilimane, at such times as the overflow 

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