doned, because the labor
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 Nyaude, now built a stockade at the
confluence of the Luenya and Zambesi; and when the commandant of Tete
sent an officer with his company 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 his 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 dispatched
a strong party under his son Bonga across the river below the stockade,
and up the left bank of the Zambesi until they came near to Tete. They
then attacked Tete, which was wholly undefended save by a few soldiers
in the fort, plundered and burned the whole town 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 ruin, 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 dispersed the whole; and as the fugitives took roundabout
ways in their flight, Katolosa, who had hitherto pretended to be
friendly 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 burned all the plantations of the rich merchants
of Tete on the north bank. As I have before remarked, th