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The Portuguese Merchant and the Governor-general-Arbitrary Measures adopted towards the Banyans-The Piratical seizure of the "Ari-passa"-Measures adopted for her Restoration-Comparison between Wellington's Soldiers and Mozambique Soldiers-The "Ari-passa" is restored-Seizure of the British cutter "Herald."
There being some misunderstanding as to what portion of the coast between Cape Delgado and Delagoa Bay has belonged to Portugal, and, as the British government has never been represented by any agent on that coast until within the last three years, it naturally devolved upon me, as the first British functionary employed by Great Britain in the province of Mozambique, to make myself thoroughly acquainted with the real state of the question of Portuguese possession in Eastern Africa, on which, in a great measure, hangs the future commercial development and civilization of Central Africa; and I now lay before the intelligent reader the result of my patient and impartial inquiries on the subject.