20 After Big Game in Central Africa 



Tchandiu * they said with an air of regret and with 

 a sigh. This sobriquet clung to me, supplanting that 

 of Niakumbarume (the hunter), which I possessed 

 before. 



The only one of my men upon whom I had not 

 made a call was Maonda. As he had become very 

 lazy recently, and did not agree with his companions, 

 I had decided to do without his services. 



Tambarika had brought with him one of his 

 countrymen, the son of an elephant-hunter ; a very 

 young man he was, possessed with an extraordinary 

 passion for hunting, and promising to become a worthy 

 member of my quintet. Later he justified these pre- 

 visions, and has been an excellent assistant. His 

 name is Kambombe, and he carried out with Msiam- 

 biri the duties of hunter and valet, receiving, like 

 him, an additional salary. 



Msiambiri's real name is Matingambiri he was 

 called Msiambiri by abbreviation. Born at Kariza- 

 Mimba, on the Upper Zambesi, the son of a celebrated 

 elephant-hunter, he had passed the whole of his life 

 in the woods. When I knew him first he was at Tete, 

 employed as an elephant-hunter by a Portuguese 

 mulatto named Msungo Appa. I took him into my 

 service at first as a hunter, and then as a servant. 

 Possessing an agreeable physiognomy with saw-like 

 teeth, like those of the Sengas, his compatriots, he 

 was tall and spare, sinewy, never prone to stoutness. 



1 Ndiu means confusedly meat, fish, vegetables, or any ragout, 

 which they eat with ncima or baked flour, the bread of the blacks of 

 that region. 



