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ACKOSS ATKICA. 



[Chap. 



August, 

 1875. 



vioiigwa but two. And tliey were now the only remaining 

 stores I had to depend upon after the fish shoukl be expended. 



Together with Alvez, I visited Katende, and found him sit- 

 ting in state under a large tree, surrounded by his councilors. 



On either side was a fetich hut — one, containing two nonde- 

 script figures of animals ; and the other, caricatures of the hu- 

 man form divine ; w^hile from a branch of the tree a goat's horn 

 was suspended by a rope of creepers as a charm, and dangled 

 within a few feet of the sable potentate's nose. 



FETIOU HCT. 



He was dressed for the occasion in a colored shirt, felt hat, 

 and a long petticoat made of colored pocket-handkerchiefs, and 

 he smoked unremittingly the whole time, for he was an ardent 

 votary of the soothing weed. 



As it happened that his stock of tobacco was nearly exhaust- 

 ed, I gained his esteem by making him a present of a little, in 

 return for which I received a fowl and some eggs. 



I questioned him about Livingstone, whom he remembered 

 as having passed by his village ; but there was very little in- 

 formation to be obtained respecting the great traveler, except 

 that he rode an ox, a circumstance which seemed to have im- 

 printed itself indelibly on Katende's memory. Since Living- 

 stone's time, he had changed the position of his village twice. 



In the afternoon a number of natives came into camp, iuul 



