The universal geography : earth and its inhabitants

2G0SOUTU AND EAST AFKlt'A.residence, v.itL the whole village, is abandoned, the natives rebuilding their hutsand reclaiming frosh laud in another district. Although unknown to Europeanexplorers, the Ba-Lundas long maintained indirect commercial relations with thePortuguese of the western seaboard through the agency of the Biheno people.The beeswax exported from Loanda and Benguella comes for the most part fromtheir forests, where it is collected in bark hives suspended from the trees andprotected by terrible fetishes from the rapacity of marauders.Tin;Bakotse Kmpike.The various tribes inhabiting the Zambese valley properly so called, below theconfluence of the Liba with the Kabombo, have been united in a single state amongthe South African peoples variously known by the name of Barotse (Ba-Eots6),Ungcnge, Lui, or Luina. Sebituani, founder of this empire, was a Basuto conqueror,who led a host of warriors victoriously across the whole region comprisedbetween the Orange and the Zambese, enrolling under his banner all the youngmen of the conquered tribes along the line of march. On reaching the Zambeseand Chobe confluence, Sebituani and his Makololo followers took possession of thispeninsular region, which being protected by vast swampy tracts served as the centreof the new kingdom, and was soon peopled by at least three hundred thousand souls.It was here that Livingstone visited them, and their capital, Linyati, a town ofover fifteen thousand inhabitants, situated on the north bank of the Chobe, becamethe centre of his explorations in aU the surrounding Zambese lands.But the missionaries who succeeded him met with less favour, and several ofthem having succumbed either to the effects of the climate or to poison, the reportwas spread abroad that some calamity was pending over the Makololos. The stormwas in truth already gathering. The Luinas, or Barotses properly so called, whohad reluctantly submitted to their foreign rulers, now broke into revolt, and fallingsuddenly on the unsuspecting Makololos, massacred them almost to the last man.Two onl}-, with their wives and children, were said to have been spared in the wholepeninsula. Terror-stricken by the news of the overwhelming disaster, the Makololosdwelling south of the Chobe fled westwards and sought a refuge amongstthe Ba-Toanas settled on the banks of Lake Ngami. By them they were receivedwith apparent friendship, but as soon as the unarmed suppliants ventured withinthe royal enclosure, they were suddenly attacked and slaughtered by the Ba-Toanawarriors. Thus perished the Makololo nation. Their women were distributedamongst the conquerors, and their children brought up under other names in thevillages and encampments of the Barotses.But despite this change of masters, the kingdom founded by Sebituani wasmaintained at least south of the Chobe. The Barotses themselves did not ventureto cross the line of natural defence formed by the surrounding marshes. Butnorth of this limit they took the place of the Makololos as i-ulers of the land, andsoon after annexed the whole of the Mabunda (Ma-Mbunda) territory, which hadbeen inherited by a queen too weak to maintain herself on the throne. "When