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Monoemugi and many other names on the coast— that beyond 
this lay a district called Chikanga, which contained the mines 
Manica, and that the other names were applicable solely to petty 
districts at that time under the rule of tlie Quiteve. 
This monarch immediately collected a force to oppose Baretto'« 
progress and to prevent his reaching Chicanga, lest the king of 
that district, who was his declared enemy, should join with the 
Portuguese. Having, however, in two or three skirmishes found 
the decided inferiority of his troops, he adopted the wiser reso- 
lution of retreating before the enemy, annoying him in his march, 
and destroying the plantations to prevent their affording suste- 
nance to his pursuers; and at last, when the Portiiguese ap- 
proached his capital, the Quiteve retired into a neighbouring 
forest, abandoning instead of defending^'' as the Portuguese 
insist he ought to have done, the dwellings of his people \ ' at 
the same time his subjects, who knew the country intimately, cut 
off a great number of the straggling soldiers. 
Baretto, greatly annoyed by this conduct, and the total evaOTa- 
tion of Zimbaoa, burnt it, and continued his march to Chicanga, 
the king of which was at that time a Mahomedan. He received 
the Portuguese with apparent attention, as they abstained from 
all acts of hostility and professed themselves friends ; yet, though 
he promised them access to his dominions for the purposes of 
trade, he at the same tim« gave them little satisfaction respecting 
the mines, as is evident from the attempt to cover their disap- 
pointment by the assertion, that the risk and labour attending 
*Vthe procuring and cleansing the gold rendered it unworthy of 
their notice/' Thus baffled in thdr main pursuit, ^.nd having 
