e hoes, knives, etc. They
are also skillful in making wooden vessels. Limboa felt annoyed because
he was obliged to apply for these articles through his brother, whom he
regarded as his inferior, and accordingly resolved to come into the same
district. As this was looked upon as an assertion of superiority which
Masiko would resist, it was virtually a declaration of war. Both Masiko
and Shinte pleaded my injunction to live in peace and friendship, but
Limboa, confident of success, now sent the message which I was about
to hear--"That he, too, highly approved of the 'word' I had given, but
would only for once transgress a little, and live at peace for ever
afterward." He now desired the aid of Shinte to subdue his brother.
Messengers came from Masiko at the same time, desiring assistance to
repel him. Shinte felt inclined to aid Limboa, but, as he had advised
them both to wait till I came, I now urged him to let the quarrel alone,
and he took my advice.

We parted on the best possible terms with our friend Shinte, and
proceeded by our former path to the village of his sister Nyamoana, who
is now a widow. She received us with much apparent feeling, and said,
"We had removed from our former abode to the place where you found us,
and had no idea then that it was the spot where my husband was to die."
She had come to the River Lofuje, as they never remain in a place where
death has once visited them. We received the loan of five small canoes
from her, and also one of those we had left here before, to proceed down
the Leeba. After viewing the Coanza at Massangano, I thought the Leeba
at least a third larger, and upward of two hundred yards wide. We saw
evidence of its rise during its last flood having been upward of forty
feet in perpendicular height; but this is probably more than usual, as
the amount of rain was above the average. My companions purchased also
a number of canoes from the Balonda. These are very small, and can carry
only two persons. They are made quite thin and light, and as sharp as
racing-skiffs, because they are used in hunting animals in the water.
The price paid was a string of beads equal to the length of the canoe.
We advised them to bring canoes for sale to the Makololo, as they would
gladly give them cows in exchange.

In descending the Leeba we saw many herds of wild animals, especially
the tahetsi ('Aigoceros equina'), one magnificent antelope, the
putokuane ('Antilope niger'), and two fine lions