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THE PORTUGUESE. 



an animal tribute of 100 gold miskals in token of 

 submission to the greedy and unprincipled Dom 

 Manuel. 6 The conquered pays the conquest ! ' 

 exclaims with Christian emphasis the venerable 

 Osorio. Portugal now began to gather gold from 

 Sofala to Makdishu; 'Wagerage,' the chief of 

 Melinde, contributed every year 1500 wedges 

 (ingots) of the precious metal, and the insolence 

 of the victors must have made the good old man 

 deeply regret the welcome and the Godspeed 

 which he had bestowed upon the exploratory 

 expedition. 



The Portuguese having wrested Kilwa and 

 Mombasah from its Arab chiefs, D. Duarte de 

 Lemos, appointed (a.d. 1508) by the King 

 Governor of the c Provinces of ^Ethiopia and 

 Arabia/ attacked successively Many ah, Zan- 

 zibar, and Pemba, for failing in the paramount 

 duty of paying tribute. Mafiyah submitted, the 

 people of Pemba escaped to Mombasah, leaving 

 nothing in their houses, and Zanzibar resisted, 

 but the town was taken and plundered. The 

 Shaykh retired northwards, and his subjects 

 fled to the bush, c depois de bem esfarrapados na 

 carne con a ponta da lanca, e espada dos nossos ' 

 — after being well pierced in the flesh by the 

 lance-points and the sword-blades of our men — 



