ims--An unreasonable
Man--"Woman's Rights"--Presents--Temperance--A winding Course
to shun Villages--Banyai Complexion and Hair--Mushrooms--The
Tubers, Mokuri--The Tree Shekabakadzi--Face of the Country--
Pot-holes--Pursued by a Party of Natives--Unpleasant Threat--
Aroused by a Company of Soldiers--A civilized Breakfast--
Arrival at Tete.

Chapter 31. Kind Reception from the Commandant--His Generosity
to my Men--The Village of Tete--The Population--Distilled
Spirits--The Fort--Cause of the Decadence of Portuguese Power--
Former Trade--Slaves employed in Gold-washing--Slave-trade
drained the Country of Laborers--The Rebel Nyaude's Stockade--
He burns Tete--Kisaka's Revolt and Ravages--Extensive Field of
Sugar-cane--The Commandant's good Reputation among the
Natives--Providential Guidance--Seams of Coal--A hot Spring--
Picturesque Country--Water-carriage to the Coal-fields--
Workmen's Wages--Exports--Price of Provisions--Visit Gold-
washings--The Process of obtaining the precious Metal--Coal
within a Gold-field--Present from Major Sicard--Natives raise
Wheat, etc.--Liberality of the Commandant--Geographical
Information from Senhor Candido--Earthquakes--Native Ideas of
a Supreme Being--Also of the Immortality and Transmigration of
Souls--Fondness for Display at Funerals--Trade Restrictions--
Former Jesuit Establishment--State of Religion and Education
at Tete--Inundation of the Zambesi--Cotton cultivated--The
fibrous Plants Conge and Buaze--Detained by Fever--The
Kumbanzo Bark--Native Medicines--Iron, its Quality--Hear of
Famine at Kilimane--Death of a Portuguese Lady--The Funeral--
Disinterested Kindness of the Portuguese.

Chapter 32. Leave Tete and proceed down the River--Pass the
Stockade of Bonga--Gorge of Lupata--"Spine of the World"--
Width of River--Islands--War Drum at Shiramba--Canoe
Navigation--Reach Senna--Its ruinous State--Landeens levy
Fines upon the Inhabitants--Cowardice of native Militia--State
of the Revenue--No direct Trade with Portugal--Attempts to
revive the Trade of Eastern Africa--Country round Senna--
Gorongozo, a Jesuit Station--Manica, the best Gold Region in
Eastern Africa--Boat-building at Senna--Our Departure--Capture
of a Rebel Stockade--Plants Alfacinya and Njefu at the
Confluence of the Shire--Landeen Opinion of the Whites--
Mazaro, the point reached by Captain Park