Their want of success confirmed my impression that I ought to go westward.

Porto kindly offered to aid me, if I would go with him to Bihe; but when I declined, he preceded me to Loanda, and was publishing his Journal when I arrived at that city.
Ben Habib told me that Porto had sent letters to Mozambique by the Arab, Ben Chombo, whom I knew; and he has since asserted, in Portugal, that he himself went to Mozambique as well as his letters! But Santuru was once visited by the Mambari, and a distinct recollection of that visit is retained.

They came to purchase slaves, and both Santuru and his head men refused them permission to buy any of the people.

The Makololo quoted this precedent when speaking of the Mambari, and said that they, as the present masters of the country, had as good a right to expel them as Santuru.

The Mambari reside near Bihe, under an Ambonda chief named Kangombe.