CHAPTER II. 
' Historical Account of the Mosambique Settlements — Ignorance of ancient Geographers 
respecting the Coast— Early Account of it by an Arabian author— Subjection and 
expulsion of the original Settlers, and establishment of the power of the Portuguese — 
Their attempts to subdue the Interior baffled by the prudence and vigilance of the 
Natives— Attack upon these Settlements in 1589 by the Muzimbas, (supposed to be 
Galla) — Failure of every effort to convert the Natives to the Catholic Faith- 
Description of the present state of the Settlements on the River Zambezi — Quilimanci 
— Tete — Sena — Manica, and the Gold Mines — Mode of carrying on Trade with the 
Natives in the Interior— Jurisdiction of the Portuguese along the Coast— The former- 
supposed importance of these Settlements— Their gradually decreasing consequence — 
— Their present degraded State, The discouraging prospect from their external 
connections— An Account of the Maratis or Pirates of Madagascar — The uncommon 
ferocity of this People— Its Excursions against the Comoro and Querimbo Islands — 
Consequences of the English abolition of the Slave Trade on the Commerce of Mosam- 
bique— Its present Trade, &c.— Departure of the Marian for the Red Sea. 
