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Updated: September 2, 2025
'On the Quilimane and Zambesi Rivers'. From the Journal of the late Capt. HYDE PARKER, R.N., H. M. Brig "Pantaloon". "The Luabo is the main outlet of the Great Zambesi. In the rainy season January and February principally the whole country is overflowed, and the water escapes by the different rivers as far up as Quilimane; but in the dry season neither Quilimane nor Olinda communicates with it.
Time will convince her of that foolish error, Of thinking a brisk young Husband a torment. Gal. What young Husband? Am. The General, Madam. Gal. Why, dost thou think she will consent to it? Am. Madam, I cannot tell, the World's inconstant. Gal. Ay, Aminta, in every thing but Love; And sure they cannot be in that: What say'st thou, Olinda? Oli. Madam, my Judgment's naught.
You shall command me any thing. Oli. Pray Heaven you keep your word. Am. That sad tone of thine, Olinda, has almost Made me repent of my promise; but come, what is't? Oli. My Brother, Madam. Am. Oli. Stay, Madam, he dies for you. Am. He cannot do't for any Woman living; But well it seems he speaks of Love to you; To me he does appear a very Statue. Oli.
Madam, your heart is strangely fortified That can resist th'efforts I have made against it, And bring to boot such marks of valour too. Enter to them Alcander, who seeing them would turn back, but Olinda stays him. Oli. Brother, come back. Fal. Advance, advance, what, Man, afraid of me? Alcan. Fal. Alcan. That's most proper for your Wit, Falatius. Am. Why so angry? Alcan. Away, thou art deceiv'd.
Olinda now revives, Thalander discovering her love for him reveals himself, and Perindus' oracle being fulfilled, all ends happily, the festivities being crowned by the entirely unexpected and uncalled-for return of Tyrinthus, the father of Perindus and Olinda, who had been carried off long before by pirates.
"One easily recognizes the true value of the explosion of vicious egotism found in the official organ of the diocese of Olinda. The priest this time lost his calmness and let escape certain rude phrases as if he were yet in the good old times when he could imprison and burn at his pleasure.
This land-fall settled the matter, and the former instrument was condemned, and becoming still worse, was never afterwards used. As we ran in towards the coast, we found that we were directly off the port of Pernambuco, and could see with the telescope the roofs of the houses, and one large church, and the town of Olinda.
The environs of Pernambuco are very pretty. You see country houses in all directions, and the appearance of here and there a sugar plantation enriches the scenery. Palm-trees, cocoa-nut trees, orange and lemon groves, and all the different fruits peculiar to Brazil, are here in the greatest abundance. At Olinda there is a national botanical garden; it wants space, produce, and improvement.
In the tragedy of Kronegk, "Olinda and Sophronia," the most terrible suffering to which we see these martyrs to their faith exposed only excites our pity feebly, and all their heroism only stirs our admiration moderately, because madness alone can suggest the act by which Olinda has placed himself and all his people on the brink of the precipice.
The problem before the Dutch commander was a difficult one, for news of the expedition had reached Madrid; and Matthias de Albuquerque, brother of "the proprietor" of Pernambuco, Duarte de Albuquerque, a man of great energy and powers of leadership, had arrived in October to put Olinda and the Reciff into a state of defence.
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