They receive calico, salt, gunpowder, coarse earthenware, and beads, and give in return ivory and slaves.

They possess no cattle, Matiamvo alone having a single herd, which he keeps entirely for the sake of the flesh.

The present chief is said to be mild in his government, and will depose an under-chief for unjust conduct.

He occasionally sends the distance of a hundred miles or more to behead an offending officer.

But, though I was informed by the Portuguese that he possesses absolute power, his name had less influence over his subjects with whom I came in contact than that of Sekeletu has over his people living at a much greater distance from the capital.
As we thought it best to strike away to the S.E.from Cabango to our old friend Katema, I asked a guide from Muanzanza as soon as the funeral proceedings were over.