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MOSAMBIQUE. 
General of Mosambique.* In the first instance he fitted out 
from Bofala a formidable armament, with the design of penetrat- 
iBg into the country of Chicanga, and getting possession of the 
mines of Manica, in order to reach which it was necessary for 
him to pass through the dominions, and close to the capital, of 
the <iuiteve, t or chief ruler of the intervening districts, whose 
power extended in a line across from Sofala to the angle made by 
■the turn of the river Zambezi. 
This country is commonly called Monomotapa, in the accounts 
of which a perplexing obscurity has been introduced, by different 
authors having confounded the names of the districts with the 
titles of the sovereigns, indiscriminately styling them ' Quiteve,' 
'Monomotapa,' * Benemotapa,' ^Benemotasha,' ' Chikanga," 
^ Manika,' ' Bokaranga,' and ' Mokoiranga,' &c. The fact ap- 
pears to be, that the sovereign's title was Quite ve, and the name 
of the country Motapa, to which Mono has been prefixed, as in 
*" This account is chiefly taken from Marmol, and J. Dos Santos, but represented in 
a very diiferent point of view ; the last writer is the grossest adulator of the court, and 
<3ignifies every exploit of Baretto with most undeserved encomium. 
t Vide a description of this sovereign and the manners of his subjects in the Histoire de 
I'Ethiopie par Jean Dos Santos ; a Paris, 1684, p. 38, and Purchas Vol.Il.p. 1537. In many 
respects they appear to resemble the Abyssinians. The king, as a mark of distinction, 
wears a singular kind of horn over the forehead. If a prince be in anyway mutilated he is 
considered as unfit for the crown. The inhabitants celebrate after the death of their 
monarchs a festival called ^pemberar,' very much resembling the ^toscar' of the Abyssi- 
nians, both of which end in riot and debauchery. They are very curious in the various 
modes of dressing their hair, like the Abyssinians. Their mode of hunting is similar. 
They are governed by head-men holding a jurisdiction independent of the king: their 
mode of trial is summary ; and they purchase their wives, as is always customary in Abys- 
sinia, and carry them home upon their shoulders without stopping, presents being made 
tQ the bridegroom on the occasion by his companions. 
