CHAPTER XVII 
MALINGAN1R0 AND HIS IVORY 
Malinganiro, whose villages used, in the old days, 
to lie on the plateau close to the eastern shore of Lake 
Nyassa, within two or three days’ journey of the 
Portuguese Collectorate at Matengula, was the least 
powerful of the three notorious chiefs, rulers over 
the turbulent and warlike Wyao tribe. (Since the 
date of the episode, which I am going to relate, 
his people have removed to the Awembe Mountains 
in Mataka’s country, three or four days’ journey 
further east, and are now under the headship of a 
descendant of the same name.) Up to 1900, though 
Malinganiro had not openly acknowledged the 
supremacy of the Portuguese Government, and never 
allowed the Portuguese askaris (or native soldiers) 
to enter the district under his sway, no actual 
rupture had occurred. Stormy times, however, w T ere 
ahead, for all the factors conducive to trouble were 
at hand. 
In the first place, it was well-known that Malin- 
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