The eye of his
Excellency, the Governor-General himself; and this was subsequently
corroborated by our recognizing two women at Mosambique who had lived
within a hundred yards of the Mission-station at Magomero. They were
well known to our attendants, and had formed a part of a gang of
several hundreds taken to Mosambique by the Ajawa at the very time
when his Excellency was entertaining English officers with anti-
slavery palavers. To any one who understands how minute the
information is, which Portuguese governors possess by means of their
own slaves, and through gossiping traders who seek to curry their
favour, it is idle to assert that all this slaving goes on without
their approval and connivance.
If more had been wanted to prove the hopelessness of producing any
change in the system which has prevailed ever since our allies, the
Portuguese, entered the country, we had it in the impunity with which
the freebooter, Terera, who had murdered Chibisa, was allowed to
carry on his forays. Belchoir, another marauder, had been checked,
but was still allowed to make war, as they term slave-hunting.
Mr. Horace Waller was living for some five months on Mount Morambala,
a position from which the whole process of the slave-trade, and
depopulation of the country around could be well noted.
