NotesIt may interest readers of this story to know that its author believes it tohave a certain foundation in fact.
It was said about five-and-twenty or thirty years ago that an adventuroustrader, hearing from some natives in the territory that lies at the backof Quilimane, the legend of a great treasure buried in or about the sixteenthcentury by a party of Portuguese who were afterwards massacred,as a last resource attempted its discovery by the help of a mesmerist.