The Ambonda live far to the N.W.; their language, the Bonda, is the common dialect in Angola.

Sekelenke had fled, and was now living with his village as a vassal of Masiko.

As notices of such men will perhaps convey the best idea of the state of the inhabitants to the reader, I shall hereafter allude to the conduct of Sekelenke, whom I at present only introduce.

Sekelenke had gone with his villagers to hunt elephants on the right bank of the Leeba, and was now on his way back to Masiko.

He sent me a dish of boiled zebra's flesh, and a request that I should lend him a canoe to ferry his wives and family across the river to the bank on which we were encamped.