 His favourite wife was said to be Maria de Fonseca, sister of his Portuguese-Angolan trading partner Coimbra.Msiri married one of his own daughters to Tippu Tip.In 1884, wishing to gain some advice on how to deal with the approaching European colonial powers, he invited a Scottish missionary, Frederick Stanley Arnot, who he had heard was in Angola, to come to his capital at Bunkeya, 180 km west of the Luapula River.