It Is Remarkable How Little People Living In A Flat Forest Country Like This
Know Of Distant Tribes.
An old man, who said he had been born
about the same time as the late Matiamvo, and had
Been his constant companion
through life, visited us; and as I was sitting on some grass
in front of the little gipsy tent mending my camp stool, I invited him
to take a seat on the grass beside me. This was peremptorily refused:
"he had never sat on the ground during the late chief's reign,
and he was not going to degrade himself now." One of my men handed him
a log of wood taken from the fire, and helped him out of the difficulty.
When I offered him some cooked meat on a plate, he would not
touch that either, but would take it home. So I humored him
by sending a servant to bear a few ounces of meat to the town behind him.
He mentioned the Lolo (Lulua) as the branch of the Leeambye
which flows southward or S.S.E.; but the people of Matiamvo had never gone
far down it, as their chief had always been afraid of encountering
a tribe whom, from the description given, I could recognize as the Makololo.
He described five rivers as falling into the Lolo, viz.,
the Lishish, Liss or Lise, Kalileme, Ishidish, and Molong.
None of these are large, but when they are united in the Lolo
they form a considerable stream.
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