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NYAUDE AND KISAKA. 
Chap. XXXI. 
with the Portuguese, sent out his men to capture as many of them 
as they could. They killed many for the sake of their arms. 
This is the account which both natives and Portuguese give of the 
affair. 
Another half-caste from Macao, called Kisaka or Choutama, on 
the opposite bank of the river, likewise rebelled. His father 
having died, he imagined that he had been bewitched by the 
Portuguese, and he therefore plundered and burnt all the planta¬ 
tions of the rich merchants of Tete on the north bank. As I 
have before remarked, that bank is the most fertile, and there the 
Portuguese had their villas and plantations to which they daily 
retired from Tete. When these were destroyed, the Tete people 
were completely impoverished. An attempt was made to punish 
tliis rebel, but it also was unsuccessful, and he has lately been 
pardoned by the home Government. One point in the narrative 
of this expedition is interesting. They came to a field of sugar¬ 
cane so large, that 4000 men eating it during two days did not 
finish the whole. The Portuguese were thus placed between two 
enemies, Nyaude on the right bank and Kisaka on the left, and 
not only so, but Nyaude, having placed his stockade on the point 
of land on the right banlcs of both the Luenya and Zambesi, and 
washed by both these rivers, could prevent intercourse with the sea. 
The Luenya rushes into the Zambesi with great force, when the 
latter is low, and in coming up the Zambesi boats must cross it and 
the Luenya separately, even going a little way up that river, so as 
not to be driven away by its current in the bed of the Zambesi, and 
dashed on the rock which stands on the opposite shore. In coming 
up to the Luenya for this purpose, all boats and canoes came close 
to the stockade to be robbed. Nyaude kept the Portuguese shut 
up in their fort at Tete during two years, and they could only get 
goods sufficient to buy food, by sending to Kilimane by an over¬ 
land route along the north bank of the Zambesi. The mother 
country did not in these “ Caffre wars ” pay the bills, so no one 
either became rich or blamed the missionaries. 
The merchants were unable to engage in trade; and commerce, 
which the slave-trade had rendered stagnant, was now completely 
obstructed. The present Commandant of Tete, Major Sicard, 
having great influence among the natives from his good character, 
put a stop to the war more than once by his mere presence on 
