The tradition in the country is, that the Jesuits formerly knew and worked a precious lode at Chicova.
Mr.Thornton had gone beyond Zumbo, in company with a trader of colour; he soon after this left the Zambesi and, joining the expedition of the Baron van der Decken, explored the snow mountain Kilimanjaro, north-west of Zanzibar.

Mr.Thornton's companion, the trader, brought back much ivory, having found it both abundant and cheap.

He was obliged, however, to pay heavy fines to the Banyai and other tribes, in the country which is coolly claimed in Europe as Portuguese.

During this trip of six mouths 200 pieces of cotton cloth of sixteen yards each, besides beads and brass wire, were paid to the different chiefs, for leave to pass through their country.

In addition to these sufficiently weighty exactions, the natives of _this dominion_ have got into the habit of imposing fines for alleged milandos, or crimes, which the traders' men may have unwittingly committed.