Their masters were said never to expect to see them again.

There have been two years of great hunger at Tette since we have been in the country, and a famine like the present prevailed in 1854, when thousands died of starvation.

If men like the Cape farmers owned this country, their energy and enterprise would soon render the crops independent of rain.
There being plenty of slope or fall, the land could be easily irrigated from the Zambesi and its tributary streams.

A Portuguese colony can never prosper: it is used as a penal settlement, and everything must be done military fashion.

"What do I care for this country ?" said the most enterprising of the Tette merchants, "all I want is to make money as soon possible, and then go to Bombay and enjoy it." All business at Tette was now suspended.