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Title: Narrative of an expedition to the Zambesi and its tributaries; and of the discovery of the lakes Shirwa and Nyassa. 1858-1864
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Livingstone, David, 1813-1873 Livingstone, Charles, 1821-1873, (from old catalog) joint author
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Publisher: New York, Harper & brothers
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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ame light as we did. His countrymen all knew that the plea of humanity was the best for exciting his liberality, and he was certainly most generous and obliging to us. On expressing our surprise that so humane a man could have been guilty of so much cruelty as the exportation of slaves entailed, he indignantly denied that he had ever torn slaves away from their homes. He had exported "brutos do mato," beasts of the field alone — that is, natives still wild, or lately caught in forays. This way of viewing the matter made him gravely tell us that, when his wife died, to dull the edge of his grief he made a foray among the tribes near the mouth of the Shire, and took many captives. He had commenced slave-trading at Angola and made several fortunes, but somehow managed to dissipate them all in riotous living in a short time at Rio de Janeiro. The money a man makes in the slave-trade, said he, is all bad, and soon goes back to the devil. Some twelve years since he embarked with a lot of ivory from
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Chap. VI. SENHOR VIANNA. 153 Quillimane, and the vessel was seized as a slaver and carried to the Cape. Other ships of his had been captured by our cruisers, and he had nothing to say against that; it was all right and fair, for they were actually employed in the slave-trade. But it was wrong, he thought, for the English to take this vessel, as she was then on a lawful voyage. The English officers had thought so to[o], and wished to restore it to him, and would have done so, for they were gentlemen, but a rascally countryman of his own at the Cape opposed them, and his vessel was condemned. Many years afterward a naval officer, who had been in the cruiser that took his ship, accompanied us up the river, and, recognizing our friend, at once informed him that the British government, having subsequently ascertained that the capture of his vessel was illegal, had paid to the Portuguese government the full value of both ship and cargo. Senhor Yianna, a settler, had just purchased a farm of three miles squ

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