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to decline under the reign of his son Chicreto. David 
Livingstone., deeply grateful for the favours of the latter, 
who supplied him with the means of proceeding to Loanda 
and the Mozambique, is perhaps somewhat prejudiced in 
the eulogiums he bestows upon this king, for in the 
record of the journey he subsequently undertook to these 
parts with his brother Charles and Dr. Kirk, he could not 
refrain from dwelling on the disorder and deep decadence 
in which he found the Macololo empire. Of the natives 
who came from the South, with Chibitano, viz. the Maco- 
lolos, few now remain, they having been decimated by 
the fevers proper to the country, which do not even spare 
the natives themselves. Drunkenness and the too free 
use of banyue, joined to the unruliness of the chiefs, little 
by little, deprived the invaders of all their usurped 
authority. On the death of Chicreto, he was succeeded 
by his nephew Omborolo, who was to reign during the 
minority of Pepe, a younger brother of Chicre'to and son 
of the great Chihitano. The Luinas conspired, and Pepe 
was one day assassinated. Omborolo ere long shared 
the same fate, and the Luinas having organised what 
amounted to another St. Bartholomew’s, slew without 
mercy the remnant of the former invading warriors, of 
whom only a handful escaped, who, under the command 
of Siroque, a brother of Chicreto’s mother, fled westward 
and crossed the Zambesi at Nariere. The Luinas, after 
this sanguinary act, proclaimed their chief Chipopa, a man 
of ability, who took measures to prevent any dismember¬ 
ment of the country, and managed to keep the empire 
in the same powerful condition that it boasted in the 
time of Chibitano. 
Chipopa reigned many years, but treachery was soon 
at its old work, and in 1876 a certain Gambella caused 
him to be assassinated, and proclaimed his nephew Manu- 
anino, a youth of 17, king in his stead. The first act of 
Manuanino’s exercise of authority was to order Gambella, 
the man who had brought him to the throne, to be be¬ 
headed ; and, not content with this, he deposed from 
office all the relatives and friends of his father, who had 
assisted to procure him his dignity, and collected about 
