dapala, and about west of it. The Lundi was now
breast deep too, and twelve yards broad.

On reaching Casembe's, on the Mofwe, we found Mohamad Bogharib digging
and fencing up a well to prevent his slaves being taken away by the
crocodiles, as three had been eaten already. A dog bit the leg of one
of my goats so badly that I was obliged to kill it: they are nasty
curs here, without courage, and yet they sometimes bite people badly.
I met some old friends, and Mohamad Bogharib cooked a supper, and from
this time forward never omitted sharing his victuals with me.

_6th May, 1868._--Manoel Caetano Pereira visited Casembe in 1796, or
seventy-two years ago: his native name was Moendo-mondo, or the
world's leg--"world-wide traveller!" He came to Mandapala, for there
the Casembe of the time resided, and he had a priest or "Kasise" with
him, and many people with guns. Perembe, the oldest man now in Lunda,
had children even then: if Perembe were thirty years of age at that
period he would now be 102 years old, and he seems quite that, for
when Dr. Lacerda came he had forty children. He says that Pereira
fired off all his guns on his arrival, and Casembe asking him what he
meant by that, he replied, "These guns ask for slaves and ivory," both
of which were liberally given.

I could not induce Perembe to tell anything of times previous to his
own. Moendo-mondo, the world's leg (Pereira), told Dr. Lacerda that
the natives called him "The Terror!"--a bit of vanity, for they have
no such word or abstract term in their language.

When Major Monteiro was here the town of Casembe was on the same spot
as now, but the Mosumba, or enclosure of the chief, was about 500
yards S.E. of the present one. Monteiro went nowhere and did nothing,
but some of his attendants went over to the Luapula, some six miles
distant. He complains in his book of having been robbed by the Casembe
of the time. On asking the present occupant of the office why
Monteiro's goods were taken from him, he replied, that he was then
living at another village and did not know of the affair. Mohamad bin
Saleh was present, and he says that Monteiro's statement is false: no
goods were forced from him; but it was a year of scarcity, and
Monteiro had to spend his goods in buying food instead of slaves and
ivory, and made up the tale of Casembe plundering him to appease his
creditors.

A number of men were sent with Monteiro as an honorary escort. Kapika,
an old man now li