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shooting excursion, and was dressed (which appeared to us 
somewhat singular) in half boots and scarlet stockings. One 
lady only was present, who was habited very gaily, and had two 
black slave-girls to attend her. These, and a detachment of the 
native troops, whose conduct appeared to be extremely decorous, 
constituted the whole congregation. 
After mass I had an opportunity of examining the body of the 
chapel : it was plain and neat, with a single picture of a saint on 
one of the sides, and a handsome altar-piece at the east-end, 
which on particular occasions is lighted up with a great profusion 
of tapers. Near the altar lay a solitary tomb-stone, with the 
following elegantly written inscription. 
D. Annse candidee 
Uxori suavissimae 
anima^que dimidium meae 
D. D'^^\ De Souza, 
Regis a concilio, 
Et Africie Orien talis prorege, 
in sui amoris 
et pietatis signum 
M. H. C. 
A. D. 1793— Die 17. Octobris. 
The expression in this inscription of Viceroy of Eastern 
Africa" deserves remark, as it is an appellation to which (though 
often assumed) the governor of this settlement is not at present 
entitled, his proper appellation being Govern ador e Capitao 
General do Est^ de Mosambique, Rios de Sena e Sofala.'' 
At a short distance from this chapel stands a house allotted to 
