. Narrative of an expedition to the Zambesi and its tributaries; and of the discovery of the lakes Shirwa and Nyassa. 1858-1864 . ame light as we did. His countrymenall knew that the plea of humanity was the best for excitinghis liberality, and he was certainly most generous and obli-ging to us. On expressing our surprise that so humane aman could have been guilty of so much cruelty as the ex-portation of slaves entailed, he indignantly denied that hehad ever torn slaves away from their homes. He had ex-ported brutbs do mato beasts of the field alone — that is,natives still wild, or lately cau
. Narrative of an expedition to the Zambesi and its tributaries; and of the discovery of the lakes Shirwa and Nyassa. 1858-1864 . ame light as we did. His countrymenall knew that the plea of humanity was the best for excitinghis liberality, and he was certainly most generous and obli-ging to us. On expressing our surprise that so humane aman could have been guilty of so much cruelty as the ex-portation of slaves entailed, he indignantly denied that hehad ever torn slaves away from their homes. He had ex-ported brutbs do mato beasts of the field alone — that is,natives still wild, or lately caught in forays. This way ofviewing the matter made him gravely tell us that, when hiswife died, to dull the edge of his grief he made a forayamong the tribes near the mouth of the Shire, and tookmany captives. He had commenced slave-trading at Angolaand made several fortunes, but somehow managed to dissi-pate them all in riotous living in a short time at Eio de Ja-neiro. The money a man makes in the slave-trade, saidhe, is all bad, and soon goes back to the devil. Sometwelve years since he embarked with a lot of ivory from. Chap. VI. SENHOR VIANNA. 153 Quillimane, and the vessel was seized as a slaver and carriedto the Cape. Other ships of his had been captured by ourcruisers, and he had nothing to say against that; it was allright and fair, for they were actually employed in the slave-trade. But it was wrong, he thought, for the English totake this vessel, as she was then on a lawful voyage. TheEnglish officers had thought so to, and wished to restore itto him, and would have done so, for they were gentlemen,but a rascally countryman of his own at the Cape opposedthem, and his vessel was condemned. Many years afterwarda naval officer, who had been in the cruiser that took hisship, accompanied us up the river, and, recognizing ourfriend, at once informed him that the British government,having subsequently ascertained that the capture of his ves-sel was illegal, had paid to the
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