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in which he got the better of his antagonists, he prudently 
retired to the interior, where he pitched his tent on the 
river Cuando, below the Cuchibi, and resumed his former 
life as a huntsman. He could not, however, in his retreat, 
forget his former state, and, mindful of the power that 
was once wielded by his family, he brooded upon ambi¬ 
tious projects. The re-establishment of the Macololo 
dynasty in the Lui became his constant thought, and. 
that he might the better set about the realisation of his 
scheme, he drew nearer to the proposed scene of action by 
the Cuando. Apombeiro of the Bihe, his reputed friend, 
and who had furnished him with powder, denounced him 
to Manuanino, then recently proclaimed, and that 
monarch, having in the most cowardly way got him into 
his power, caused him to be assassinated near th e village 
of Mutambanja. All his adherents fell victims at the 
same time, and the assegai of the slayer of Siroque opened 
the tomb to the last of the Macololos. 
The day on which the intelligence which had befallen 
the King’s arms reached the capital was dark and gloomy, 
and seemed in harmony with the state of Lobossi’s 
mind. Ill-news flies apace, and rumours of fresh mis¬ 
haps tread upon the heels of each other. Among other 
scraps of sinister intelligence, it was next reported 
that Lo Bengula, the powerful monarch of the Matebeli. 
was projecting an attack upon the Lui. Everything was 
topsy-turvy in the city; every one had a pet expedient 
to propose, or some mad scheme to ventilate; and two 
men, only, appeared to retain their wits and coolness 
amid the general confusion. These were Machauana 
and Gambella—the latter the Minister of War, Machau- 
and the General-in-Chief A Decided and rapid orders 
* News of the Lui, which I have since received in Europe, partly com¬ 
municated by Dr. Bradshaw and partly sent from the Bihe, inform me 
that the Luinas, after my stay among them, suffered a fierce attack from 
certain N.E. tribes, which Dr. Bradshaw describes under the name of 
Ma-Kupi-Kupi; and that, subsequently, Lobossi ordered Gambella, 
Machauana, and young Manatumueno, son of King Chipopa, to be put to 
death. Shortly afterwards it was reported in the Bihe that King Lobossi 
had himself been assassinated, and another sovereign proclaimed in his 
stead; the new monarch being, according to the same source—not, by 
the by, too reliable a one—the Manuanino before referred to. 
