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gave it a mouldy appearance and a strong smell. As we 

 sometimes pushed aside the masses of rank vegetation 

 which hung over our path, we felt a sort of hot blast on 

 our faces. Everything looked unwholesome, but we had 

 no fever. The Ue flows between, high banks of a soft 

 red sandstone streaked with white, and pieces of tufa. 

 The crumbling sandstone is evidently alluvial, and is cut 

 into 12 feet deep. In this region, too, we met with pot- 

 holes, six feet deep and three or four in diameter. In 

 some cases they form convenient wells ; in others the}?- are 

 full of earth ; and in others still, the people have made 

 them into graves for their chiefs. 



On the 20th we came to Monfna's village (close to the 

 sand-river Tangwe, lat. i6° 13' 38" S., long. 32 ° 32' B.). 

 This man is very popular among the tribes on account of 

 his liberality. Bordma, Nyampungo, Monma, Jira, Kato- 

 losa (Monomotipa), and Stisa, all acknowledge the supre- 

 macy 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. Katoldsa is " the Bmperor Monomotapa " of 

 history, but he is a chief of no great power, and acknow- 

 ledges the supremacy of Nyatewe. The Portuguese for- 

 merly honoured Monomotapa with a guard, to fire off 

 numbers of guns on the occasion of any funeral, and he 

 was also partially subsidized. The only evidence of great- 

 ness possessed by his successor is his having about a 

 hundred wives. When he dies, a disputed succession and 

 much fighting are expected. In reference to the term 

 Monomotapa, it is to be remembered that Mono, Mcene, 

 Mona, Mana, or Morena, mean simply chief, and con- 

 siderable confusion has arisen from naming different people 

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

 Monomoizes, spelt also Monemuiges and Monomuizes, and 

 Monomotapistas, when applied to these tribes are exactly 

 the same as if we should call the Scotch the Lord Douglases. 

 Motipe was the chief of the Bambiri, a tribe of the Banyai, 

 and is now represented in the person of Katoldsa. He was 

 probably a man of greater energy than his successor, yet 

 only an insignificant chief. Monomoizes was formed from 

 Moiza or Muiza, the singular 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 



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