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Moenempanda carried his back stiffly, and no wonder, he had about ten yards of a train carried behind it. About 600 people were present. At a private reception, where he was divested of his train, and had only one umbrella instead of three, I gave him a cloth.
March over well-wooded highlands with dolomite rocks cropping out and trees all covered with lichens, the watershed then changed to the south. 15th June, 1868. Found Moenempanda, Casembe's brother, on the Luluputa, a stream twenty yards wide and flowing west.
The Moenempanda visited by the Portuguese was grandfather to this one, and not at the same spot; it is useless to put down the names of chiefs as indicating geographical positions, for the name is often continued, but at a spot far distant from the dwelling of the original possessor.
I told Casembe that we were going; he said to me that if in coming back I had found no travelling party, I must not risk going by Nsama's road with so few people, but must go to his brother Moenempanda, and he would send men to guide me to him, and thence he would send me safely by his path along Lake Moero: this was all very good. 23rd May, 1868.
In this state of confusion Cazembe heard that my party had been cut off: he called in Moenempanda and took the field in person, in order to punish the Banyamwezi, against whom he has an old grudge for killing a near relative of his family, selling Baüsi, and setting themselves up as a power in his country.
Casembe rose in the esteem of all as Moenempanda sank, and his people were made to understand how shabbily he had behaved. The Lulaputa is said to flow into the Luéna, and that into the Luongo: there must be two Luénas. 22nd June, 1868.
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