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king than his father, who had brought the tribe 

 with him over the great mountains, for he had 

 never seen a white man." The warriors rattled 

 their spears and shields, and yelled their appro- 

 bation ; and I won their hearts by distributing some 

 beads and tobacco amongst them. 



I invested N'miamba with a red cap like those 

 of my people, as a sign that she now belonged to 

 me, hung round her neck several rows of diiferent 

 coloured beads, with small looking-glasses attached, 

 and wrapped her up in a piece of blue satin stripe, 

 which certainly did not add to her appearance, 

 although it made her the envy of all the other 

 village belles. 



An antiquated dame, whom I afterwards found 

 was the king's head-wife, and the aunt of the girl, 

 now thought it necessary at this crisis to give her a 

 lecture upon her duties, which the Bekelai thus 

 interpreted: " That she was now the greatest and 

 the happiest woman of the tribe, but that she must 

 be sure and please the white man in all things, so 

 that he would not leave the village ; that she must 

 persuade him to make guns, cloth, beads and 



