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said he, " is all bad, and soon goes back to the devil." Some 

 twelve years since, he embarked with a lot of ivory from 

 Quillhnane, and the vessel was seized as a slaver and carried 

 to the Cape. Other ships of his had been captured by our 

 cruisers, and he had nothing to say against that, it was all 

 right and fan, for they were actually employed in the slave- 

 trade. But it was wrong, he thought, for the English to take 

 this vessel, as she was then on a lawful voyage. The English 

 officers had thought so too, and wished to restore it to 

 him, and would have done so, for they were gentlemen, but 

 a rascally countryman of his own at the Cape opposed them, 

 and his vessel was condemned. Many years afterwards a 

 naval officer, who had been in the cruiser that took his ship, 

 accompanied us up the river, and, recognising our friend, at 

 once informed him that the British Government, having sub- 

 sequently ascertained that the capture of his vessel was 

 illegal, had paid to the Portuguese Government the full value 

 of both ship and cargo. 



Senhor Vianna, a settler, had just purchased a farm of 

 three miles square, one side of which was the battle-field of 

 Mazaro ; and for this he was to pay nine hundred dollars, or 

 £180, in three years. He also rented from the Government 

 forty miles of Mariano's estate, situated on the Shire and 

 Zambesi. Mr. Azevedo rented for many years eighty miles 

 of the land on the Eastern side of Mazaro. The rental of a 

 few hundred dollars is made up by the colonos or serfs paying 

 him who farms the land a bag or two of grain annually, 

 and performing certain services somewhat as was done in our 

 " cottar " system. The Landeens or Zulus on the opposite or 

 southern bank had come down for their tribute, but Vianna 

 sent a small present, and begged them not to press for it until 

 the Governor had gone. Meanwhile sending all his goods to 



