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HOSTILE APPEAKANCES. 
Chap. XXIX. 
CHAPTEE XXIX. 
Confluence of Loangwa and Zambesi — Hostile appearances ■—Enins of a church 
— Turmoil of spirit — Cross the river—Friendly parting — Euins of stone 
houses — The situation of Zumbo for commerce—Pleasant gardens — Dr. 
Lacerda’s visit to Cazembe — Peirara’s statement — Unsuccessful attempt to 
establish trade with the people of Cazembe — One of my men tossed by a 
buffalo — Meet a man with jacket and hat on — Hear of the Portuguese and 
native war — Holms and terraces on the banks of river— Dancing for corn 
— Beautiful country — Mpende’s hostility — Incantations — A fight anti¬ 
cipated — Courage and remarks of my men — Visit from two old councillors 
of Mpende — Their opinion of the English — Mpende concludes not to fight 
us — His subsequent friendship — Aids us to cross the river —■ The country 
— Sweet potatoes — Bakwain theory of rain confirmed— Thunder without 
clouds — Desertion of one of my men — Other natives’ ideas of the Eng¬ 
lish — Dalama (gold) — Inhabitants dislike slave-buyers — Meet native 
traders with American calico — Game-laws — Elephant medicine—Salt 
from the sand — Fertility of soil — Spotted hyjena — Liberality and polite¬ 
ness of the people — Presents A stingy white trader — Natives’ remarks 
about him —Effect on their minds — Eain and wind now from an opposite 
direction—Scarcity of fuel — Trees for boat-building — Boroma — Freshets 
— Leave the river — Chicova, its geological features — Small rapid near 
Tete — Loquacious guide — Nyampungo, the rain-charmer — An old man 
— No silver— Gold-washing — No cattle. 
—We readied the confluence of the Loangwa and the 
Zambesi, most thankful to God for his gTcat mercies in helping 
us thus far. Mburuma’s people had behaved so suspiciously, that, 
though we had guides from lum, we were by no means sure that 
we should not be attacked in crossing the Loangwa. We saw 
them here collecting in large numbers, and, though professing 
friendship, they kept at a distance from our camp. They refused 
to lend us more canoes than two, though they have many. They 
have no intercourse with Europeans, except through the Babisa. 
They teU us that this was formerly the residence of the Bazunga, 
and maintain silence as to the cause of then- leaving it. I walked 
about some rums I discovered, built of stone, and found the 
remams of a church, and on one side lay a broken beU, with 
the letters I. H. S. and a cross, but no date. There were no 
