I, mambo, the Molimo of Bambatse, send you greeting, and will give you good welcome and fulfil my promise, if you come with the far-shooting guns, ten times ten of them, and the powder, and the bullets wherewith I may drive off the Matabele, but not otherwise.
"Benita, An African Romance"
H. Rider Haggard
We offer this gift, he said, on behalf of mambo, my father, to the lady yonder, to whom the karosses and the rough gold are of no use.
"Benita, An African Romance"
H. Rider Haggard
Thus sometimes the Molimo, or priest of Munwali, and the mambo or chief were different persons.
"Benita, An African Romance"
H. Rider Haggard