"Hunger is strong enough for that," said an under-chief; "a very great fellow is he." They thought of attacking them by starvation.

As the chief sufferers in case of such an attack would have been the poor slaves chained in gangs, I interceded for them, and the result of an intercession of which they were ignorant was that they were allowed to depart in peace.
Naliele, the capital of the Barotse, is built on a mound which was constructed artificially by Santuru, and was his store-house for grain.
His own capital stood about five hundred yards to the south of that, in what is now the bed of the river.

All that remains of the largest mound in the valley are a few cubic yards of earth, to erect which cost the whole of the people of Santuru the labor of many years.

The same thing has happened to another ancient site of a town, Linangelo, also on the left bank.

It would seem, therefore, that the river in this part of the valley must be wearing eastward.