TETE PLUNDERED AND BURNT. 591 



body of slaves and marched against the stockade of 

 Nyaude, but when they came near to it, there was the 

 Luenya still to cross. As they did not effect this speedily „ 

 Nyaude despatched a strong party under his son Bonga 

 across the river below the stockade, and up the left bank: 

 of the Zambesi until they came near to Tete, They then 

 attacked Tete, which was totally undefended save by a 

 few soldiers in the fort, plundered and burned the whole, 

 town except the house of the Commandant and a few 

 others, with the church and fort. The women and 

 children fled into the church, and it is a remarkable £act,> 

 that none of the natives of this region will ever attack a 

 church. Having rendered Tete a ruin, Bonga carried off 

 all the cattle and plunder to his father. News of this- 

 having been brought to the army, before the stockade, a 

 sudden panic dispersed the whole ; and as the fugitives^ 

 took roundabout ways in their flight, Katolosa, who had. 

 hitherto pretended to be friendly 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 Maeoa, 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 plantations 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 was 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 



