36 CHIBISA. 



on the banks ready for battle. They said they were 

 there to frighten the Makololos, whom they daily ex- 

 pected ; but all these savages were civil to us. With- 

 in a short distance of these people we met an armed 

 party of Ajawahs, headed by one Makololo. Most 

 of them carried guns. They said they were going to 

 fight Mankokwe. However, they promised to follow 

 us back to Chibisa instead. 



On inquiring of the Makololos the cause of this 

 war, we were informed that, at the invitation of Man- 

 kokwe, the Portuguese came down on the Makololos, 

 burned their villages, and carried off the bullocks 

 which had been given them by Livingstone, leaving 

 them in charge of Mankokwe. The Makololo, 

 hearing this, and knowing that their cattle were 

 not far off, got the Ajawahs (a tribe who had just 

 driven the Manganja before them from the very 

 shores of Nyassa) to join them, attacked the nearest 

 of Mankokwe's villages, and defeating the Manganja 

 chief, burned the village, and carried oif some women. 

 However, the bullocks had been removed on their 

 approach, and the Makololo had to return without 

 them. Hence the present state of affairs. The Ma- 

 kololo say they will never leave the Manganja in 

 peace till they bring them back their bullocks, when 

 they will swear eternal friendship. This places Man- 

 kokwe in anything but an enviable position. With 

 the Makololo and Ajawah to cause him perpetual 

 worry on one side, he is at constant war with the 

 rebel Metakenny on the other. 



On the 16th August we landed at Chibisa, under 

 the spot where the old mission station used to be. 



