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through Litabaruba, a town of the adjoining tribe, that of 
the Baquina, within forty miles of the Tropic. Sibigo’s 
people averred that they heard of the unfortunate travellers 
for five or six days after they left them, and that when 
coming to a Bastard nation (probably a mixed race of 
Portuguese, and natives), they had turned towards the sea or 
eastward. At Siloqualalie, these traders found a singular 
memorial of the visit of the expedition im possession of 
Sibigo, and which no bribe or price could induce him to 
part with. The carved representation of a man on horse- 
back, of European contour, and dressed in a hat, trousers, 
and jacket, which was stated to be that of one of this fated 
party. There is every reason, from all we have learned, to 
believe that they were dispersed, and several lost their lives 
somewhere at the back of Inhamban, to which part of the 
coast, upon their turning to the eastward, five or six days 
north of Melita, according to the Bawankets’ account, that 
route would bring them. In consequence of the long 
absence of intelligence from these travellers, Lord Caledon 
sent a vessel to Sofala, where it collected that the party had 
been cut off in the kingdom of Zaire, and only two persons 
escaped; and the Portuguese Governor of Mosambique 
having sent some trusty Negroes up the country, received 
similar information. From some subsequent information 
communicated by Captain Vidal, commanding one of the 
discovery ships on the eastern coast in the year 1824, and 
which is borne out by the testimony of Mr. H. Fynn, long 
a resident at Port Natal, a Hottentot man and woman 
arrived early in 1810 at the Portuguese settlement of De la 
Goa, who stated themselves to belong to an expedition from 
the Colony, at which Portuguese station they died, under 
strong suspicion of poison, and, as has been rumoured, 
