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AFRICA AND ITS EXPLORATION. 
him only his maternal kinsmen. The former conspired 
in turn, and made a revolution with the object of assas¬ 
sinating him, in March, 1878; but Manuanino, learning 
of his danger, through some who were yet faithful to 
him, succeeded in escaping, and fled towards the Cuando, 
where he assailed and devastated the villa o-e of Mutarn- 
O 
banja. Lobossi, having been proclaimed King, despatched 
an army against him, and Manuanino had to retire from 
his new quarters, and repassing the Zambesi at Quisseque, 
plunged into the country of the Chuculumbe, which he 
crossed, and joined a band of whites, elephant-hunters, 
who were encamped on the borders of the Cafucue. 
Lobossi, apparently conscious that his own safety de¬ 
pended upon the death of Manuanino, sent a fresh army 
against him. It was of the result of that very expedition 
that news had arrived that day. It seems that on near¬ 
ing the spot where the late sovereign was harbouring 
with his newly-found white friends, whom they styled 
Muzungos, the chiefs demanded that Manuanino should 
be given up, that he might be slain, and on receiving a 
flat refusal, they attacked the band, but with so little 
success, that they were completely routed by the whites, 
few only being left to escape back to Lialui and narrate 
the disaster which had befallen the expedition. This was 
the motive of the beating of drums and convocation to war, 
above alluded to, and for which I had been invited by Lo¬ 
bossi to fire oft' the volleys in the great square of the city. 
As I have been speaking of the history of the Lui, I 
may as well narrate here one of its most interesting and 
romantic episodes. Among the few Macololos who, on 
the occasion of the African St. Bartholomew’s, managed to 
escape with a band of natives, and pass the Zambesi, was, 
as I have mentioned, a chief of the name of Siroque. 
Intrepid and fearless, Siroque proceeded westward until 
he reached the Cubango, which he made his temporary 
residence, and where lie passed his days hunting the 
elephants. He subsequently mounted the river to the 
Bihe, and remained there a considerable time, paying an 
occasional visit to Benguella, with trading caravans. One 
day, however, a dispute having arisen, resulting in blows, 
