581 HOSTILE APPEARANCES. Chap. XXIX. 



CHAPTEE XXIX. 



Confluence of Loangwa and Zambesi — Hostile appearances — Ruins of a church 



— Turmoil of spirit — Cross the river — Friendly parting — Ruins of stone 

 houses — The situation of Zumbo for commerce — Pleasant gardens — Dr. 

 Lacerda's visit to Cazemhe — Peirara's statement — Unsuccessful attempt to 

 establish trade with the people of Cazembe — One of my men tossed by a 

 buffalo — Meet a man with jacket and hat on — Hear of the Portuguese and 

 native war — Holms and terraces on the banks of river — Dancing for corn 



— Beautiful country — Mpende's hostility — Incantations — A fight anti- 

 cipated — Courage and remarks of my men — Visit from two old councillors 

 of Mpende — Their opinion of the English — Mpende concludes not to fight 

 us — His subsequent friendship — Aids us to cross the river — The country 



— Sweet potatoes — Bakwain theory of rain confirmed — Thunder without 

 clouds — Desertion of one of my men — Other natives' ideas of the Eng- 

 lish — Dalama (gold) — Inhabitants dislike slave-buyers — Meet native 

 traders with American calico — Game-laws — Elephant medicine — Salt 

 from the sand — Fertility of soil — Spotted hyama — Liberality and polite- 

 ness of the people — Presents — A stingy white trader — Natives' remarks 

 about him — Effect on their minds — Eain and wind now from an opposite 

 direction — Scarcity of fuel — Trees for boat-building — Boroma — Freshets 



— Leave the river — Chicova, its geological features — Small rapid near 

 Tete — Loquacious guide — Nyampungo, the rain-charmer — An old man 



— No silver — Gold-washing — No cattle. 



lWi. — We reached the confluence of the Loangwa and the 

 Zambesi, most thankful to God for his great mercies in helping 

 us thus far. Mburuma's people had behaved so suspiciously, that, 

 though we had guides from him, we were by no means sure that 

 we should not be attacked in crossing the Loangwa. We saw 

 them here collecting in large numbers, and, though professing 

 friendship, they kept at a distance from our camp. They refused 

 to lend us more canoes than two, though they have many. They 

 have no intercourse with Europeans, except through the Babisa. 

 They tell us that this was formerly the residence of the Bazunga, 

 and maintain silence as to the cause of then leaving it. I walked 

 about some rums I discovered, built of stone, and found the 

 remains of a church, and on one side lay a broken bell, with 

 the letters I. H. S. and a cross, but no date. There were no 



