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of his wife. Their neighbours on the south-east pay them 
tribute in marine salt ; and they described another country 
as dependent on them, to which a Portuguese officer had 
recently penetrated from the eastern coast, and died there: 
this person was M. Lacerda, Colonel of Engineers. 
“The king of the Mooloaas would not suffer the Portuguese 
envoy to pass through his territories for the eastern coast, 
until an understanding had been settled between himself 
and the Governor-General Saldanha, to whom accordingly 
two formal and distinct embassies were sent, one from the 
Muata, and the other from his wife, bearing seperate pre- 
sents. These Africans were clothed for the most part in 
European manufactures, obtained from the Portuguese set- 
tlement in Mozambique, and Count Saldanha remarked that 
they were not only a much finer race of men than those in the 
vicinity of the coast, but that they were also more civilized 
and intelligent.” «As they rquested that a Portuguese 
mart or fair might be established in Mooloaa, Count Sal- 
danha was encouraged to send another expedition, with orders 
to proceed to Mozambique, there to embark, and return by 
sea to Loanda. Unfortunately, however, this enlightened 
and enterprising governor, being soon afterwards recalled, 
and sent on an embassy to Russia, the project, from which 
so much benefit might have resulted, fell to the ground 
through the negligence of the Count’s successor, and the 
opposition of the Cassanges to the proposed commercial 
intercourse with the Mooloaas.” 
Colonel Lacerda, who has been mentioned in the pre- 
ceding extract as having arrived on the borders of the ter- 
ritories of Muata Janvo, was ordered by the Mozambique 
Government to penetrate inland from Tete, a consider- 
able factory on the river Zambezi, where he died: a copy of 
his last despatch, which was placed in Mr. Bowdich’s hands, 
