are supposed to be only one hundred leagues distance from each other [394].  The country of Monomotapa produces rice and maize, and has plenty of cattle and poultry, the inhabitants addicting themselves to pasturage and tillage, and even cultivating gardens.  It is divided into 25 kingdoms or provinces named Mongas, Baroe, Manica, Boese, Macingo, Remo, Chique, Chiria, Chidima, Boquizo, Inhanzo, Chiruvia, Condesaca, Daburia, Macurumbe, Mungussi, Antiovaza, Chove, Chungue, Dvia, Romba, Rassini, Chirao, Mocaranga and Remo-de-Beza.

[Footnote 387:  According to modern maps, the Zambeze divides the empire of Mocaranga, the sovereign of which is called Monomotapa, from the empire of the Bororos; and the river Chireira or Manzara on the south of the Zambeze, which it joins, is entirely confined to the country of Mocaranga.—­E.]

[Footnote 388:  Sena is 220 English miles from the sea; Tete is 260 miles higher up:  so that this great river is navigable for 480 miles, probably for small vessels only.—­E.]

[Footnote 389:  Massapa is the name of a Portuguese fort or settlement on the river Mocaras, a branch of the Chireira, in the interior of Mocaranga.  Anfur or Fura is a mountain about 100 miles from Massapa, said to contain rich gold mines.—­E.]

[Footnote 390:  Luanze is about 100 miles south from Tete, on one of the branches of the Chireira.—­E.]

[Footnote 391:  Bacuto is 40 miles south of Luanze.—­E.]

[Footnote 392:  Massapa is about 45 miles S.S.W. from Buento or Bacuto, or 170 miles in that direction from Tete.—­E]

[Footnote 393:  Quiteve is that kingdom or province of Mocaranga, now named Sofala from the river of that name by which it is pervaded.  Sabanda is probably the kingdom or province of Sabia, on the river of that name, the southern province of Mocaranga.  Chicanga is what is now called Manica, the south-west province of Mocaranga, the king or chief of which province is named Chicanga.—­E.]

[Footnote 394:  The Butua of the text is probably the kingdom of Abutua of modern maps, in the interior of Africa, directly west from the northern part of Mocaranga.  The distance between Abutua and the eastern confines of Benguela, one of the provinces of Angola or Congo, is about 800 or 900 miles.—­E.]

The emperor [395] has a large wooden palace, the three chief apartments of which are, one for himself, another for his wife, and the third for his menial servants.  It has three doors opening into a large court, one appropriated for the queen and her attendants, one for the king and the servants attached to his person, and the third for the two head cooks, who are great men and relations of the king, and for the under-cooks who are all men of quality below twenty years of age, as none so young are supposed to have any commerce with women, or otherwise they are severely punished.  After serving in the palace, these young men are preferred to high employments.