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is dated at Tete in March, 1798, from which place he was 
to proceed with six officers and fifty soldiers; from this 
expedition he never returned. His despatch, however, con- 
tained much valuable information—inclosed was the depo- 
sition of Gonsalvo Gaetano Perreira, who had penetrated to 
the capital of the Cazembe, which is situated more than 
half the distance to Benguela, where, immediately on his 
arrival, “ a messenger was dispatched to the king of Mooro- 
pooa, informing him that if he had seen white men from 
Angola, the Cazembe had received a like visit from Mo- 
zambique.” 
An ambassador from the Cazembi visited Colonel La- 
cerda, at Tete, who furnished him with a route more south- 
erly and direct than that pursued by Perreira, and stated 
that from the capital of his sovereign to that of Mooropooa 
(from which a constant communication is kept up with 
Benguela, and the coast canoes coming from Angola to 
within a short distance of it) was a journey of two months. 
Mooropooa is about two hundred miles distant from St. 
Philip de Benguela, direct east. 
It will thus appear that two lines of communication have 
been opened between the eastern and western colonies of 
Portugal. In 1807, that from Benguela, through the fair 
at Cassange to the capital of the Muata Janvo, who trades 
with Mozambique, and that by Perreira, previous to 1798, 
from the latter place to the Cazembe, who maintain inter- 
course with Mooropooa, the latter place supplying Angola 
and the west coast with slaves and native produce. 
The eastern settlements on the Zambezi or Cuama River, 
with their fairs, extend to above seven hundred miles from 
the coast; and, although much fallen off from their ancient 
splendour and extensive trade, are still important. Sena 
and ‘Tete, which are built upon the river, are the head- 
quarters commanding certain trading districts, besides 
