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imitate military manners, and make what they call war and 

 peace, as if no other authority existed. At a subsequent 

 period this adventurer forced Chibisa to flee to the new 

 Mission-station opposite Dakanamoio island, and threatened 

 to follow him thither. To prevent this Dr. Livingstone ap- 

 plied to the Governor of Tette, Antonio Tavares d' Almeida, 

 and we have much pleasure in stating that his Excellency 

 had already laid an injunction on Belchior, not to proceed 

 with his intended foray. This very creditable order had 

 preceded the application. 



Dr. Kirk and Charles Livingstone arrived at Tette on the 

 17th, and found its wonted dull monotony agreeably broken 

 by the marriage of the Governor's daughter to one of the 

 officers. The slaves were celebrating the joyful event in 

 the usual way, by drinking, drumming, dancing, singing, and 

 firing off muskets. Our companions were hospitably received 

 by the Governor, which was more than they had reason to 

 expect, after having so recently freed his slave-gangs in the 

 Manganja country. His Excellency alluded to the subject 

 one evening, remarking to Dr. Kirk that he had received 

 from his brother, the Governor-General, a despatch, saying 

 that as the slave-trade was legal under Portuguese law, 

 if any slave-party, out of the Portuguese territory, was at- 

 tacked, they were to resist force by force; in plain words, 

 they were to fight the next time we attempted to rescue the 

 kidnapped Manganja. Tins is mentioned not that it is in 

 any way remarkable for a representative of the Portuguese 

 Crown to connive at slaving, but because the Governor-General 

 Almeida, by speaking English and professing to have an 

 intense desire to suppress the slave-trade, gained a character 

 for uprightness among the officers of H.M. cruisers, which 

 none of his countrymen would for a moment endorse. On 

 finding afterwards that his less powerful brother at Tette 



