THE JUNCTION OP THE ZAMBESI AND LOANGWA. 456 
The sight of white men seems to be naturally terrible to 
the native Africans. When a village is entered for the 
first time, the children, the women, the fowls and dogs all 
run away, and the quiet scene becomes one of hubbub, 
until the native interpreters explain. To the wild animals, 
the scent of mau appears to excite more fear even than his 
sight. The sport is all gone for the hunter who gets to 
the windward of his game. In Chicova, deposits of coal 
are found, and the natives were taught that it would burn 
—a fact of which they were at first incredulous. 
On the 16th of June, the party arrived at the Senga, a 
flourishing village lying at the foot of Mount Motemwa, 
and under the control of Manynme. Chikwanitsela, or 
Sekuanangila, is the chief ruler of about fifty miles of the 
northern bank of the Zambesi, at this place. He lives on 
the southern bank, and has there a still more extensive 
kingdom. On the 20th of June, they reached a spot 
through which Dr. Livingstone had passed in his journey 
from the west to the east coast. The country north of the 
mountains, here in sight from the Zambesi, is called Senga, 
and its inhabitants Asenga or Basenga, but appear to be 
of the same stock as the rest of the Manganja and Maravi. 
Formerly all the Manganja were united under their great 
chief Undi, whose power extended from Lake Shirwa to 
the river Loangwa ; but at his death, his empire became 
disintegrated, and a large part of it on the Zambesi was 
absorbed by the Banyai. On the 26th of June, the party 
arrived at Zambo, on the left hand of the Loangwa, near 
the ruins of some ancient I’ortuguese houses. The site 
chosen for the settlement was admirable, at the junction 
of the Zambesi and Loangwa rivers. 
The native hunter in Africa knows where he can find 
water by the animals he sees. The presence of the gems- 
buck, duiker or diver, springbucks, or elephants, is no proof 
that water is near, since these animals roam over extensive 
ranges of country. The zebra, pallah, buffalo, or rhinoce- 
ros, show by their tracks that water is near, since they 
