THE BAROTSE COUNTRY. 
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lie had, during the night, been made acquainted with the 
projects I meditated, and intended therefore to order me 
out of his country, and only to leave the road to the Bihe 
open to me. He had charged Verissimo to bring me this 
message, which, however, in no wise disconcerted me, as 
I had, since the evening before, been expecting some 
such news. I sent to Gambella, with a request that he 
would call on me; but he carefully kept out of sight. 
CUBANGO MAN. 
nor could I succeed in coming across him the whole 
of that day. I did not fail to despatch a reply to Lobossi, 
pointing out to him the impolicy of the course he was 
adopting, as I had it in my power to do him a deal of 
harm by preventing the traders of the Bihe from setting 
foot in his dominions ; but I got, for sole rejoinder, a 
fresh order to pack up, and to look to the Bihe as the 
sole available road. In the afternoon I received another 
message, to the effect that the forces which had been 
got together for the war would not march until I had 
