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AFRICAN PROPER NAMES. 263 



only four or five weeks before, his love becomes strongly like a 

 sarcastic imitation of his human enemies, who are hardly more 

 permanently disconsolate. 



The party came to Monina's village (close to the sand-river 

 Tangwe, latitude 16° 13' 38" south, longitude 32° 32' east). 

 This man was very popular among the tribes on account of his 

 liberality. Boroma, Nyampungo, Monina, Jira, Katolosa 

 (Monomotapa), and Susa, all acknowledge the supremacy of one 

 called Nyatewe, who is reported to decide all disputes respecting 

 land. This confederation is exactly similar to what we observed 

 in Londa and other parts of Africa. Katolosa is " the Emperor 

 Monomotapa " of history, but he is a chief of no great power, 

 and acknowledges the supremacy of Nyatewe. The Portuguese 

 formerly honored Monomotapa with a guard to fire off numbers 

 of guns on the occasion of any funeral, and he was also partially 

 subsidized. The ouly evidence of greatness possessed by his 

 successor is his having about a hundred wives. When he dies 

 a disputed succession and much fighting are expected. In re- 

 ference to the term Monomotapa, it is to be remembered that 

 Mono, Moene, Mona, Mana, or Morena, mean simply chief, and 

 considerable confusion has arisen from naming different people 

 by making a plural of the chief's name. The names Mono- 

 moizes, spelled also Monemuiges and Monomuizes, and Mono- 

 motapis,tas, when applied to these tribes, are exactly the same as 

 if we should call the Scotch the Lord Douglases. Motape 

 was the chief of the Bambiri, a tribe of the Banyai, and is now 

 represented in the person of Katolosa. He was probably a man 

 of greater energy than his successor, yet only an insignificant 

 chief. Monomoizes was formed from Moiza or Muiza, the sin- 

 gular of the word Babisa or Aiza, the proper name of a large 

 tribe to the north. In the transformation of this name the same 

 error has been committed as in the others ; and mistakes have 

 occurred in many other names by inattention to the meaning, 

 and predilection for the letter r. The river Loangwa, for in- 

 stance, has been termed Arroangoa, and the Luenya the Ruanha. 

 The Bazizulu, or Mashona, are spoken of as the Morururus. 



The government of the Banyai is rather peculiar, being a 

 sort of feudal republicanism. The chief is elected, and they 

 choose the son of the deceased chief's sister in preference to his 



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