Africa and its inhabitants . e holy place, where dwelt the first M««l« thatis, near the right bank of the Kalangi, and not far fron, the cr^n or are deposited the remains of the fourteen .sovereigns of thm dynuMy wJ,ohave successively reigned over Lunda Land. During rogpes journey m mussamba was at Kkimemc, on the left bank ,.t the Kalangi; four years later. 486 WEST AFEICA. at tlio time of Bucliners visit to the royal court, it had been trausferrerl toKawanda, some 12 miles to the south-west, and about midway between bothaffluents. The huts of the capital are sc
Africa and its inhabitants . e holy place, where dwelt the first M««l« thatis, near the right bank of the Kalangi, and not far fron, the cr^n or are deposited the remains of the fourteen .sovereigns of thm dynuMy wJ,ohave successively reigned over Lunda Land. During rogpes journey m mussamba was at Kkimemc, on the left bank ,.t the Kalangi; four years later. 486 WEST AFEICA. at tlio time of Bucliners visit to the royal court, it had been trausferrerl toKawanda, some 12 miles to the south-west, and about midway between bothaffluents. The huts of the capital are scattered over a wide extent of ground,some grouped .together promiscuously like mole-hills, others enclosed withina rectangular paKsade, formed of stakes or saplings, which are j)lanted in theground at the beginning of the rainy season, and which, striking root, rapidlygrow into large leafy trees. Pogge estimated at from eight to ten thousand the Fig. 218.—Lakqe States in the Congo Basin before 1890. Scale 1: 24,000, East OJ Greenwich , 300 Miles. number of persons dwelling in the mussamba within a radius of a mile and aquarter from the royal enclosure. North of the territory chosen as the site of the royal residence, the domain ofthe Muata Yamvo extended to no great distance, the banks of the Lu-Lua and itstributaries being occupied in this direction by the savage Ka-Wanda people, whohad resisted all the attempts of the Muata Yamvo to subdue them. Their bowmenare said to dip their arrowheads in a Aery active poison, of which they alone havethe secret, and with which they imbue the thorny bushes along the tracts in orderto destroy the enemy penetrating into their territory. In any case, very fewEuropean explorers have yet succeeded in making their way into the Ka-Wandacountry. THE BA-LUBA. 467 Farther north, iu the same Lu-Lua basin, follow the Tu-Biii«li and the IJa-Lindi tribes, which also lie beyoud the routes geuerally followed by explorers, liutfarther ou begins
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