Wonders of the tropics; or, Explorations and adventures of Henry M Stanley and other world-renowned travelers, including Livingstone, Baker, Cameron, Speke, Emin Pasha, Du Chaillu, Andersson, etc., etc .. . Makololo, wherehe had visited the Chief Sebituane in 1851. The whole population,amounting to nearly seven thousand souls, turned out to welcome found that the princess had abdicated in favor of her brother Se-keletu, who received him with the greatest cordiality. The young king,then only nineteen, exclaimed: I have now got another father insteadof Sebituane. The people shared this fe
Wonders of the tropics; or, Explorations and adventures of Henry M Stanley and other world-renowned travelers, including Livingstone, Baker, Cameron, Speke, Emin Pasha, Du Chaillu, Andersson, etc., etc .. . Makololo, wherehe had visited the Chief Sebituane in 1851. The whole population,amounting to nearly seven thousand souls, turned out to welcome found that the princess had abdicated in favor of her brother Se-keletu, who received him with the greatest cordiality. The young king,then only nineteen, exclaimed: I have now got another father insteadof Sebituane. The people shared this feeling, believing that by theresidence of a missionary among them they would obtain some important,benefits, though of the real character of the blessing they might receivethey were totally ignorant. A rival of the young king existed in the person of a cousin, Mpepe,who had been appointed by the late king chief over a portion ofhis subjects, but whose ambition made him aim at the command of thewhole. Half-caste Portuguese slave-traders had made their way to Linyanti^and one, who pretended to be an important person, was carried about in^a hammock slung between two .poles, which looking like a bag, the. GREAT BAOBAB TREE OF AFRICA. (109) 110 WONDERS OF THE TROPICS. natives called him the father of the bag. Mpepe favored these scoun-drels, as he hoped by their means to succeed in his rebellion. Thearrival of Livingstone, however, somewhat dampened their Saves a Chief from an Assassin. As the chief object of the doctor was to select a spot for a settlement, heascended, accompanied by Sekeletu, the great river Zambesi, which hadbeen discovered in the year 1851. The doctor had taught the Makololoto ride on their oxen, which they had never before done, though, havingneither saddles or bridles, they constantly fell off. He and Sekeletu were riding along side by side, when they encoun-tered Mpepe, who, as soon as he saw them, ran towards the chief withhis axe uplifted;
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