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da Gama further ; after nine days’ stay at Melinda, his 
fleet weighed anchor to make its way across unknown 
seas to Calicut. 
It is not our purpose to follow the Portuguese in their 
successive expeditions to Africa. They settled at many 
points along the coast, especially at Angola and at 
Sofala and Mozambique, on the east coast. There is no 
doubt that they sent expeditions into the interior from 
VIEW ON THE ZAMBESI. 
their stations on the 
Lower Zambesi in search 
of gold and silver mines. 
Some of the chiefs they 
may have conquered, and some, they say, they made 
treaties with. One of these we hear much of in ancient 
writings—the King or Emperor of Monomatapa—whose 
name frequently came up recently in connection with 
the dispute between England and Portugal. The most 
wonderful statements are made about this empire, which 
some writers tell us extended from Abyssina to the 
Cape. This, of course, is incredible. But that at that 
time there was a powerful potentate who ruled over a 
considerable part of Africa south of the Zambesi there 
