kwebu was with the last named, but he maintained
that they never came to the confluence, though they carried off all the
cattle of Mburuma. The guides confirmed this by saying that the Bazunga
were not attacked, but fled in alarm on the approach of the enemy. This
mango-tree he knew by its proper name, and we found seven others and
several tamarinds, and were informed that the chief Mburuma sends men
annually to gather the fruit, but, like many Africans whom I have known,
has not had patience to propagate more trees. I gave them some little
presents for themselves, a handkerchief and a few beads, and they were
highly pleased with a cloth of red baize for Mburuma, which Sekeletu had
given me to purchase a canoe. We were thankful to part good friends.

Next morning we passed along the bottom of the range, called Mazanzwe,
and found the ruins of eight or ten stone houses. They all faced the
river, and were high enough up the flanks of the hill Mazanzwe to
command a pleasant view of the broad Zambesi. These establishments
had all been built on one plan--a house on one side of a large court,
surrounded by a wall; both houses and walls had been built of soft gray
sandstone cemented together with mud. The work had been performed by
slaves ignorant of building, for the stones were not often placed so as
to cover the seams below. Hence you frequently find the joinings forming
one seam from the top to the bottom. Much mortar or clay had been used
to cover defects, and now trees of the fig family grow upon the walls,
and clasp them with their roots. When the clay is moistened, masses
of the walls come down by wholesale. Some of the rafters and beams had
fallen in, but were entire, and there were some trees in the middle of
the houses as large as a man's body. On the opposite or south bank of
the Zambesi we saw the remains of a wall on a height which was probably
a fort, and the church stood at a central point, formed by the right
bank of the Loangwa and the left of the Zambesi.

The situation of Zumbo was admirably well chosen as a site for commerce.
Looking backward we see a mass of high, dark mountains, covered with
trees; behind us rises the fine high hill Mazanzwe, which stretches away
northward along the left bank of the Loangwa; to the S.E. lies an open
country, with a small round hill in the distance called Tofulo. The
merchants, as they sat beneath the verandahs in front of their houses,
had a magnificent view of the two r