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district of Sena, on the Lower Zambesi. He set out for 
a journey into the interior, to visit the capital of the 
African king known as the Cazembe, whose territory 
lay far inland to the North-westward. He reached the 
Cazembe’s town after a march over 270 leagues of new 
PORTRAIT OF JAMES BRUCE. FROM AN OLD PRINT. 
country, but fell a victim there to his own exertions 
on the march, and his followers retraced their way to the 
Zambesi, which they reached again after an absence of 
a year and a half. In subsequent years Cazembe’s 
capital near Lake Bangweolo was visited by two Pom- 
beiros or native traders, who made their way from 
