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were issued by these two chiefs to faithful emissaries, who 
were at once despatched to distant villages. 
The thought pressed uneasily upon my mind, what was 
to become of me, amid the fresh events, now agitating the 
country ? It was said and repeated, that they were the 
Muzungos who had slain the troops of Lobossi despatched 
against Manuanino, and that if it were known that I 
was a Muzungo, my life was not worth a day’s purchase. 
Luckily the people were ignorant of the fact, and thought 
that the Portuguese of the East were of a different race 
to those of the West. In the Lui the Portuguese in the 
western colonies are styled Chinderes, a name bestowed 
upon them by the Bihenos ; those in the eastern colonies 
are called Muzungos, and the English in the South 
Macuas. They designate Mciinbares every black man 
coming from the Portuguese colonies. This word is cer- 
tainly a corruption of Quimbares, a name given to all 
the half-civilized negroes of Benguella. Hence arose the 
error of Dr. Livingstone, in assigning to the west of the 
Tala Mugongo range of mountains, a district inhabited 
by a race of Mciinbares. The Quimbares are negroes of 
various races, either slaves or free men, who are partly 
civilized. Many of them come from the Senzalas or 
slave-quarters of Benguella, or appertain to similar 
quarters belonging to the whites on the coast. In Ben¬ 
guella they call Quimbundos the wild aborigines of the 
interior, and they bestow that title more particularly on 
the Bihenos. 
On the 30th of August, at early morning, Lobossi sent 
to inform me of his intention to proceed to hostilities, 
and of the motives which compelled him to such a course. 
His emissary was Gambella himself, who further commu¬ 
nicated that, as Chuculumbe was the theatre of the 
intended war, my journey thither was impossible, and 
that, as a necessary consequence, everything which had 
been arranged between us was at an end. Events cer¬ 
tainly were rendering my position very critical. 
In the afternoon, having, meanwhile, had a fresh and 
violent attack of fever, a message was sent me that the 
Bilieno pombeiros wished to speak to me. Although 
