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shooting excursion, and was dressed (which appeared to ussomewhat singular) in half boots and scarlet stockings. Onelady only was present, who was habited very gaily, and had twoblack slave-girls to attend her. These, and a detachment of thenative troops, whose conduct appeared to be extremely decorous,constituted the whole congregation.

After mass I had an opportunity of examining the body of thechapel: it was plain and neat, with a single picture of a saint onone of the sides, and a handsome altar-piece at the east-end,which on particular occasions is lighted up with a great profusionof tapers. Near the altar lay a solitary tomb-stone, with thefollowing elegantly written inscription.

D. Annse candidaeUxori suavissimaeanimaeque dimidium meaeD. D ieg0 . De Souza,

Regis a concilio,

Et Africae Orientalis prorege,in sui amoriset pietatis signumM. H. C.

A. D. 1793—Die 17. Octobris.

The expression in this inscription of “ Viceroy of EasternAfrica” deserves remark, as it is an appellation to which (thoughoften assumed) the governor of this settlement is not at presententitled, his proper appellation being “ Governador e CapitaoGeneral do Est° de Mosambique, Rios de Sena e Sofala.”

At a short distance from this chapel stands a house allotted to

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