. Pioneers in South Africa . , pro-vided they were allowed to do as they liked with the the Portuguese did not interfere in their dealings withthe natives of the country they would not attack the Por-tuguese. Accordingly a kind of truce supervened, andfour years afterwards the forts of Sena and Tete were re-occupied, strengthened, and armed with cannon. By theend of the sixteenth century the Portuguese had almostentirely regained their hold over Zambezia, while theBa-zimba were becoming rapidly absorbed into the pre-existing native tribes and losing their ferocity. In theseventeenth
. Pioneers in South Africa . , pro-vided they were allowed to do as they liked with the the Portuguese did not interfere in their dealings withthe natives of the country they would not attack the Por-tuguese. Accordingly a kind of truce supervened, andfour years afterwards the forts of Sena and Tete were re-occupied, strengthened, and armed with cannon. By theend of the sixteenth century the Portuguese had almostentirely regained their hold over Zambezia, while theBa-zimba were becoming rapidly absorbed into the pre-existing native tribes and losing their ferocity. In theseventeenth century they are heard of no more, thoughthey still linger in the traditions and folklore of the land,and undoubtedly furnish an element in its population. Whilst these events were taking place at the close ofthe sixteenth century in what is now Portuguese EastAfrica, great activity was being shown by the Portuguesein penetrating Central Africa from the south-west estuary of the Congo had been discovered in 1482 by.
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