oOG VISIT TO NYAMOANA. 



next time you pass I shall send men with you to trade fay 

 me in Loanda." When I explained the use made of the 

 slaves he sold, and that he was just destroying his own 

 tribe by selling his people, and enlarging that of the Mam- 

 bari for the sake of these small pieces of cloth, it seemed to 

 him quite a new idea. 



We parted on the best possible terms with our friend 

 Shinte, and proceeded by our former path to the village of 

 his sister Nyamoana, who is now a widow. She received us 

 with much apparent feeling, and said, "We had removed 

 from our former abode to the place where you found us, 

 and had no idea then that it was the spot where my hus- 

 band was to die." She had come to the river Lofuje, as 

 they never remain in a place where death has once visited 

 them. We received the loan of five small canoes from her, 

 and also one of those we had left here before, to proceed 

 down the Leeba. 



Having despatched a message to our old friend Manenko, 

 we waited a day opposite her village, which was about 

 fifteen miles from the river. Her husband was instantly 

 despatched to meet us with liberal presents of food, she 

 being unable to travel in consequence of a burn on the 

 foot. Sambanza gave us a detailed account of the political 

 affairs of the country, and of Kolimbota's evil doings. 



A short distance below the confluence of the Leeba and 

 Leeambye we met a number of hunters belonging to the 

 tribe called Mambowe, who live under Masiko. They hud 

 dried flesh of hippopotami, buffaloes, and alligators. This 

 party had been sent by Masiko to the Makololo for aid to 

 repel their enemy, but, afraid to go thither, had spent the 

 time in hunting. They have a dread of the Makololo, and 

 hence the joy they expressed when peace was proclaimed.* 



* The Masiko were terrible warriors, but the atrocities committed by 

 them in war will hardly bear comparison with those committed even in 

 time of peace by the Zulus (Zooloos) under Chaka. Here is a specimen 

 given by Captain Harris: — " Umnante, the queen-mother, died, and 

 every subject in the realm was expected to proceed, according to esta- 



