In 1861, just as our Civil War was heating up, a baby boy was born in Portuguese East Africa which we know as Mozambique. As a young boy, he worked in a store that was owned and run by a Portuguese merchant, and he picked up a smattering of Portuguese as he worked. By the time this boy was 15, he had moved with a cousin to the city of Cape Town, now a major city in South Africa. There he worked as a laborer and house servant for close to 10 years.