The soil is very rich.
Casembe's ground-nuts are the largest I have seen, and so is the cassava.

I got over a pint of palm oil for a cubit of calico.
A fine young man, whose father had been the Casembe before this one, came to see us; he is in the background now, otherwise he would have conducted us to the village: a son or heir does not succeed to the chieftainship here.
_21st November, 1867._--The River Lunde was five miles from Chungu.

It is six yards wide where we crossed it, but larger further down; springs were oozing out of its bed: we then entered on a broad plain, covered with bush, the trees being all cleared off in building a village.

When one Casembe dies, the man who succeeds him invariably removes and builds his pembwe, or court, at another place: when Dr.
Lacerda died, the Casembe moved to near the north end of the Mofwe.
There have been seven Casembes in all.

The word means a _general_.
The plain extending from the Lunde to the town of Casembe is level, and studded pretty thickly with red anthills, from 15 to 20 feet high.
Casembe has made a broad path from his town to the Lunde, about a mile-and-a-half long, and as broad as a carriage-path.