A Drum Of War
Began To Beat A Note Which Is Well Known To The Inhabitants.
Some Of The Soldiers Took The Alarm On Hearing This Note, But The Officer,
Disregarding Their Warning, Was, With His Whole Party, In A Few Minutes
Disarmed And Bound Hand And Foot.
The commandant of Tete then armed
the whole body of slaves and marched against the stockade of Nyaude,
but
When they came near to it there was the Luenya still to cross.
As they did not effect this speedily, Nyaude dispatched a strong party
under his son Bonga across the river below the stockade,
and up the left bank of the Zambesi until they came near to Tete.
They then attacked Tete, which was wholly undefended save by
a few soldiers in the fort, plundered and burned the whole town
except the house of the commandant and a few others, with the church and fort.
The women and children fled into the church; and it is a remarkable fact
that none of the natives of this region will ever attack a church.
Having rendered Tete a ruin, Bonga carried off all the cattle and plunder
to his father. News of this having been brought to the army
before the stockade, a sudden panic dispersed the whole;
and as the fugitives took roundabout ways in their flight,
Katolosa, who had hitherto pretended to be friendly with the Portuguese,
sent out his men to capture as many of them as they could.
They killed many for the sake of their arms.
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