Chap. XXXI. 
TETE PLUNDEEED AND BUENT. 
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submitted to the authorities for taxation. At present the whole 
amount of gold obtained annually by the Portuguese is ffom 8 
to 10 lbs. only. When the slave-trade began, it seemed to many 
of the merchants a more speedy mode of becoming rich, to seU off 
the slaves, than to pursue the slow mode of gold-washing and 
agriculture, and they continued to export them, untd they had 
neither hands to labour nor to fight for them. It was just the 
story of the goose and the golden egg. The coffee and sugar 
plantations and gold-washings were abandoned, because the labour 
had been exported to the Brazils. Many of the Portuguese then 
followed their slaves, and the Government was obliged to pass a 
law to prevent further emigration, which, had it gone on, would 
have depopulated the Portuguese possessions altogether. A clever 
man of Asiatic (Goa) and Portuguese extraction, called JSTyaude, 
now built a stockade at the confluence of the Luenya and Zambesi; 
and when the Commandant of Tete sent an officer with his com¬ 
pany to summon him to his presence, Nyaude asked permission of 
the officer to dress himself, which being granted, he went into an 
inner apartment, and the officer ordered his men to pile their arms. 
A drum of war began to beat a note which is well known to the 
inhabitants. Some of the soldiers took the alarm on hearing this 
note, but the officer, disregarding their warning, was, with liis whole 
party, in a few minutes disarmed and bound hand and foot. The 
Commandant of Tete then armed the whole body of slaves and 
marched against the stockade of Nyaude, but when they came 
near to it, there was the Luenya still to cross. As they did not 
effect this speedily, Nyaude despatched a strong party under Ins 
son Bonga across the river below the stockade, and up the left 
banli of the Zambesi until they came near to Tete. They then 
attacked Tete, which was totally undefended save by a few 
soldiers in the fort, plundered and burned the whole tovn except 
the house of the Commandant and a few others, with the church 
and fort. The women and children fled into the church, and it is 
a remarkable fact, that none of the natives of this region will ever 
attack a church. Having rendered Tete a rum, Bonga carried off 
all the cattle and plunder to his father. News of this having 
been brought to the army before the stockade, a sudden panic dis¬ 
persed the whole ; and as the fugitives took roundabout ways in 
their flight, Katolosa, who had hitherto pretended to be friendly 
