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The vessel had several leaks, and a number of the sailors demanded an anchorage at Mozambique, for the provisions which were not salted having become bad, the crew had only rice and water for food and drink. At last on the 6th of May, the Cape of Tempests was doubled and a favourable issue to the voyage might be hoped for. Nevertheless, many vexatious accidents still awaited the navigator.

He remained there twenty-five days, during which he settled a treaty of amity with the king, and had leave to establish a factory; after which mutual presents were interchanged, and De Gama departed for Mozambique. In going out of the river from Sofala, one of the ships was lost, but all the men were saved.

On April 11, however, a discussion of the subject occurred in the Chamber of Deputies in which two interpellations were announced by the President. One of these questioned the Government as to what steps had been taken to protect French interests in Mozambique; the other had reference to the proposed passage of English troops inland from Beira.

"Guess that's no lie," commented Griffith in his dryest tone. Blake relaxed the grip that seemed to be crushing the arms of his chair. "Well, I went aboard and kept under cover. Jimmy managed to keep her diverted till we put into Port Mozambique.

The land back of Mozambique is divided into "holdings," and the rent of each holding is based upon the number of native huts it contains. The tax per hut is one pound a year, and these holdings are leased to any Portuguese who promises to pay the combined taxes of all the huts.

But after all, it matters little whether the body of Columbus be at San Domingo or at Havana; his name and his glory are everywhere. Covilham and Païva Vasco da Gama The Cape of Good Hope is doubled Escalès at Sam-Braz Mozambique, Mombaz, and Melinda Arrival at Calicut Treason of the Zamorin Battles Return to Europe The scurvy Death of Paul da Gama Arrival at Lisbon.

Below Tete, island of 16 34 46 32 51 0 Apr. 23 1 . Mozambique, on the Zambesi. Island of Nkuesa. 17 1 6 . . . Apr. 25 Senna, 300 yards S.W. 17 27 1 34 57 0 *6* |April 27| 2 6 of the Mud Fort on the bank |May 8, 9| of the river. Islet of Shupanga. 17 51 38 . . . May 12 Small islet in the middle of 17 59 21 . . . May 13 the Zambesi, and six or eight miles below Shupanga.

I have little more to say about the city of Mozambique, except to remark that it is difficult to conceive how civilised beings can allow the place they live in to be kept in so very dirty a condition.

Covilham, not considering that he had yet done enough for his country, quitted India, and went to the eastern coast of Africa, where he visited Mozambique, Sofala long famous for its gold-mines, of which the reputation, by means of the Arabs, had even reached Europe and Zeila, the Avalites portus of the ancients, and the principal town of the Adel coast, upon the Gulf of Oman, at the entrance of the Arabian Sea.

In the five hundred years in which he has claimed the shore line of East Africa from south of Lorenço Marquez to north of Mozambique, and many hundreds of miles inland, the Portuguese has been the dog in the manger among nations.