, since the departure of Limboa, elected Nananko, another son
of Santuru, in his stead; and our visitor, to whom the boy had been
intrusted as a guardian, thinking him to be in danger, fled with him
to his father. The Barotse, whom Limboa had left behind at Nyenko, on
proceeding to elect Nananko, said, "No, it is quite too much for Limboa
to rule over two places." I would have gone to visit Limboa and Masiko
too, in order to prevent hostilities, but the state of my ox would
not allow it. I therefore sent a message to Limboa by some of his men,
protesting against war with his brother, and giving him formal notice
that the path up the Leeba had been given to us by the Balonda, the
owners of the country, and that no attempt must ever be made to obstruct
free intercourse.

On leaving this place we were deserted by one of our party, Mboenga, an
Ambonda man, who had accompanied us all the way to Loanda and back. His
father was living with Masiko, and it was natural for him to wish to
join his own family again. He went off honestly, with the exception of
taking a fine "tari" skin given me by Nyamoana, but he left a parcel
of gun-flints which he had carried for me all the way from Loanda. I
regretted parting with him thus, and sent notice to him that he need not
have run away, and if he wished to come to Sekeletu again he would be
welcome. We subsequently met a large party of Barotse fleeing in
the same direction; but when I represented to them that there was a
probability of their being sold as slaves in Londa, and none in the
country of Sekeletu, they concluded to return. The grievance which the
Barotse most feel is being obliged to live with Sekeletu at Linyanti,
where there is neither fish nor fowl, nor any other kind of food, equal
in quantity to what they enjoy in their own fat valley.

A short distance below the confluence of the Leeba and Leeambye we met a
number of hunters belonging to the tribe called Mambowe, who live under
Masiko. They had dried flesh of hippopotami, buffaloes, and alligators.
They stalk the animals by using the stratagem of a cap made of the
skin of a leche's or poku's head, having the horns still attached, and
another made so as to represent the upper white part of the crane called
jabiru ('Mycteru Senegalensis'), with its long neck and beak above. With
these on, they crawl through the grass; they can easily put up their
heads so far as to see their prey without being recognized until they
are wi