The spot is called Nshinda, or Inchinda, which the Portuguese wrote Lucenda or Ucenda.

The latitude given is nearly fifty miles wrong, but the natives say that he lived only ten days after his arrival, and if, as is probable, his mind was clouded with fever when he last observed, those who have experienced what that is will readily excuse any mistake he may have made.

His object was to accomplish a much-desired project of the Portuguese to have an overland communication between their eastern and western possessions.

This was never made by any of the Portuguese nation; but two black traders succeeded partially with a part of the distance, crossing once from Cassange, in Angola, to Tette on the Zambesi, and returning with a letter from the Governor of Mosambique.

It is remarkable that this journey, which was less by a thousand miles than from sea to sea and back again, should have for ever quenched all white Portuguese aspirations for an overland route.
The different Casembes visited by the Portuguese seem to have varied much in character and otherwise.