 Neither one of them seemed to like the other.Further, in his journals, he referred to the two Portuguese that he encountered (Silva Porto and Caetano Ferreira) as ""mulattoes or uncivilized black savages"", omitting the fact that Silva Porto had helped and supplied him with valuable information, and accused Silva Porto of being nothing more than an ordinary slave trader.In 1889, after a visit to another village, Silva Porto returned to Belmonte to find his home burned-down.