wife’s first visit, great numbers of children were named Ma-Robert, or mother of Robert, her eldest child; others were named Gun, Horse, Wagon, Monare, Jesus, etc.; but though our names, and those of the native Portuguese who came in 1853, were adopted, there is not a trace of any thing of the sort having happened previously among the Barotse:  the visit of a white man is such a remarkable event, that, had any taken place during the last three hundred years, there must have remained some tradition of it.

* The Barotse call themselves the Baloiana or little Baloi, as if they had been an offset from Loi, or Lui, as it is often spelt.  As Lui had been visited by Portuguese, but its position not well ascertained, my inquiries referred to the identity of Naliele with Lui.  On asking the head man of the Mambari party, named Porto, whether he had ever heard of Naliele being visited previously, he replied in the negative, and stated that he “had himself attempted to come from Bihe three times, but had always been prevented by the tribe called Ganguellas.”  He nearly succeeded in 1852, but was driven back.  He now (in 1853) attempted to go eastward from Naliele, but came back to the Barotse on being unable to go beyond Kainko’s village, which is situated on the Bashukulompo River, and eight days distant.  The whole party was anxious to secure a reward believed to be promised by the Portuguese government.  Their want of success confirmed my impression that I ought to go westward.  Porto kindly offered to aid me, if I would go with him to Bihe; but when I declined, he preceded me to Loanda, and was publishing his Journal when I arrived at that city.  Ben Habib told me that Porto had sent letters to Mozambique by the Arab, Ben Chombo, whom I knew; and he has since asserted, in Portugal, that he himself went to Mozambique as well as his letters!

But Santuru was once visited by the Mambari, and a distinct recollection of that visit is retained.  They came to purchase slaves, and both Santuru and his head men refused them permission to buy any of the people.  The Makololo quoted this precedent when speaking of the Mambari, and said that they, as the present masters of the country, had as good a right to expel them as Santuru.  The Mambari reside near Bihe, under an Ambonda chief named Kangombe.  They profess to use the slaves for domestic purposes alone.

Some of these Mambari visited us while at Naliele.  They are of the Ambonda family, which inhabits the country southeast of Angola, and speak the Bunda dialect, which is of the same family of languages with the Barotse, Bayeiye, etc., or those black tribes comprehended under the general term Makalaka.  They plait their hair in three-fold cords, and lay them carefully down around the sides of the head.  They are quite as dark as the Barotse, but have among them a number of half-castes, with their peculiar yellow sickly hue.  On inquiring why they had fled