Under him and his successors, the empire of Ethiopia extended far south of Abyssinia away down to the Great Lakes.' 'How long did this power last ?' I asked wondering to what tale this was prologue.
'That's a mystery no scholar has ever been able to fathom.

Anyhow, the centre of authority began to shift southward, and the warrior tribes moved in that direction.

At the end of the sixteenth century the chief native power was round about the Zambesi.

The Mazimba and the Makaranga had come down from the Lake Nyassa quarter, and there was a strong kingdom in Manicaland.

That was the Monomotapa that the Portuguese thought so much of.' Wardlaw nodded eagerly.