Chefu amongst the Manganja. Any animal possessing strength, has
the terminal "fu" or "vu;" thus Njobvu, an elephant; M'vu, the
hippopotamus.--ED.

[57] The natives are quick to detect a peculiarity in a man, and give
him a name accordingly: the conquerors of a country try to forestall
them by selecting one for themselves. Susi states that when Tipo Tipo
stood over the spoil taken from Nsama, he gathered it closer together
and said, "Now I am Tipo Tipo," that is, "the gatherer together of
wealth." Kumba Kumba, of whom we shall hear much, took his name from
the number of captives he gathered in his train under similar
circumstances; it might be translated, "the collector of people."--ED.

[58] It is on the West Coast alone that idols are really worshipped in
Africa.--ED.

CHAPTER X.

Grand reception of the traveller. Casenibe and his wife. Long
stay in the town. Goes to explore Moero. Despatch to Lord
Clarendon, with notes on recent travels. Illness at the end of
1867. Further exploration of Lake Moero. Flooded plains. The
River Luao. Visits Kabwawata. Joy of Arabs at Mohamad bin
Saleh's freedom. Again ill with fever. Stories of underground
dwellings.

_24th November, 1867._--We were called to be presented to Casembe in a
grand reception.

The present Casembe has a heavy uninteresting countenance, without
beard or whiskers, and somewhat of the Chinese type, and his eyes have
an outward squint. He smiled but once during the day, and that was
pleasant enough, though the cropped ears and lopped hands, with human
skulls at the gate, made me indisposed to look on anything with
favour. His principal wife came with her attendants, after he had
departed, to look at the Englishman (Moenge-rese). She was a fine,
tall, good-featured lady, with two spears in her hand; the principal
men who had come around made way for her, and called on me to salute:
I did so; but she, being forty yards off, I involuntarily beckoned her
to come nearer: this upset the gravity of all her attendants; all
burst into a laugh, and ran off.

Casembe's smile was elicited by the dwarf making some uncouth antics
before him. His executioner also came forward to look: he had a broad
Lunda sword on his arm, and a curious scizzor-like instrument at his
neck for cropping ears. On saying to him that his was nasty work, he
smiled, and so did many who were not sure of their ears a moment: many
men of respectability show t