Africa and its inhabitants . .^_ \1 MUM. tion of Lake Moero. The present Kazemhe, as it is called from the « south of the same basin, near an island inhabited by the Me«in.«. of the aborigines conquered by the ancestors of the KuzemU-. I^ of the first martyrs of science in Central Africa, died in ut .>*;,{Lucenda) near Kazembe. 448 WEST APEIOA. The former Kingdom of Garangaja. Before 1892 the most powerful state in the Upper Congo region was that of Msiri(Musiri), a chief of Nyamezi race, whose family had reduced all the tribes along
Africa and its inhabitants . .^_ \1 MUM. tion of Lake Moero. The present Kazemhe, as it is called from the « south of the same basin, near an island inhabited by the Me«in.«. of the aborigines conquered by the ancestors of the KuzemU-. I^ of the first martyrs of science in Central Africa, died in ut .>*;,{Lucenda) near Kazembe. 448 WEST APEIOA. The former Kingdom of Garangaja. Before 1892 the most powerful state in the Upper Congo region was that of Msiri(Musiri), a chief of Nyamezi race, whose family had reduced all the tribes along Fig. 223.—Laxe Banqwbolo and the Lowee Lua-Laba, acoordinq to Liyinqstonb. Scale I :. 2G° r. a st of bfeen^^ rh 1 i^^g^a 30° _ . ^ ,. Itinerary of Livingstone.^___^.^__^_ 120 MUet. the Upper Lua-Laba. His territory stretched northward to Lake Kassali (Kikonja),under the eighth parallel of south latitude, and southwards to the country of theI-Ramba or Wa-Ramba, who occupy the Muxinga (Mushinga) highlands betweenthe Congo and Zarabese basins. This region, some 4,200 feet above sea-level, anddominated by wooded mountains running north-east and south-west, is a picturesque THE EUA STATE. * 449 and salubrious country, perhaps destined to become a sanatorium for Europeantravellers. Msiris capital, Bunkcya (Unkea, Kimpata), was situated near a small westernaffluent of tbe Lu-Fira, and was at one time a great ivory market. The kkig,who bore the curious Portuguese title of Maria Segunda, was a cruel despot, likehis brother, the ruler of Kaponda. But their sway came to an end in , when Captain Stairs, at the head of a Belgian column, occupied Bunkeya,and incorporated
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