CHAPTER XVII 



MALINGANIRO AND HIS IVORY 



MALINGANIRO, whose villages used, in the old days, 

 to lie on the plateau close to the eastern shore of Lake 

 Nyassa, within two or three days' journey of the 

 Portuguese Collectorate at Matengula, was the least 

 powerful of the three notorious chiefs, rulers over 

 the turbulent and warlike Wyao tribe. (Since the 

 date of the episode, which I am going to relate, 

 his people have removed to the Awembe Mountains 

 in Mataka's country, three or four days' journey 

 further east, and are now under the headship of a 

 descendant of the same name.) Up to 1900, though 

 Malinganiro had not openly acknowledged the 

 supremacy of the Portuguese Government, and never 

 allowed the Portuguese askaris (or native soldiers) 

 to enter the district under his sway, no actual 

 rupture had occurred. Stormy times, however, were 

 ahead, for all the factors conducive to trouble were 

 at hand. 



In the first place, it was well-known that Malin- 



