We Left Tette On The 10th, And At Senna Heard That Our
Lost Mail Had Been Picked Up On The Beach By Natives, West Of The
Milambe; Carried To Quillimane, Sent Thence To Senna, And, Passing Us
Somewhere On The River, On To Tette.
At Shupanga the governor
informed us that it was a very large mail; no great comfort, seeing
it was away up the river.
Mosquitoes were excessively troublesome at the harbour, and
especially when a light breeze blew from the north over the
mangroves. We lived for several weeks in small huts, built by our
men. Those who did the hunting for the party always got wet, and
were attacked by fever, but generally recovered in time to be out
again before the meat was all consumed. No ship appearing, we
started off on the 15th of March, and stopped to wood on the Luabo,
near an encampment of hippopotamus hunters; our men heard again,
through them, of the canoe path from this place to Quillimane, but
they declined to point it out.
We found our friend Major Sicard at Mazaro with picks, shovels,
hurdles, and slaves, having come to build a fort and custom-house at
the Kongone. As we had no good reason to hide the harbour, but many
for its being made known, we supplied him with a chart of the
tortuous branches, which, running among the mangroves, perplex the
search; and with such directions as would enable him to find his way
down to the river.
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