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lost a great number of men,* it was time to make their waj 
back, which they were fortunate enough to elFect by patching 
up a. treaty with the Ciuit6ve, in which they agreed for the. future 
to pay a tribute of tivo hundred pieces of cloth annually for a 
passage through his dominious. Such was the end of what 
J. Dos Santos calls the glorions expedition of the great Baretto, 
whose actions so mnch excite the envy of nations/* 
The second expedition was of a similar description, but still 
more disastrous in its termination. 
It was undertaken from the settlement at Sena on the river 
Zambezi against the Mongas, whom I conceive to be tribes of 
the same people I have described under the name of Monjou. I 
am led to this conclusion, not only from the similarity of the names, 
but from the resemblance of the native language given by J. Dos 
Santos to that of the Monjon in my vocabulary, a circumstance 
that also makes me incline to believe it not improbable that the 
same language may be spoken throughout all the dominions of 
the Quiteve. The Mongas, after a severe conflict, were in the 
first instance defeated, owing to their reliance on the incantations 
of an old woman, pretending to the character of a sorceress, who 
led them on to the combat, and who unluckily was killed by a 
cannon ball in the first onset, a circumstance so agreeable to the 
views of the Portuguese general, that he rewarded the gunner 
with a gold chain from his own neck. The result of this hard- 
* In Pory's History of Africa is the following remark: " this armie, which was so 
terrible to a mightie monarke, was in five daies consumed by the intemperature of the 
" aire, which is there insupportable to the people of Europe." It may admit of a ques- 
tion, if this were not an epidemical disease ? 
