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to Zanzibar for supplies. He sent by these men for coffee, 

 candles, sugar, quinine, calomel, resin of jalap, and some other 

 things, to be forwarded to Ujiji, but only with a slight hope that 

 the articles would reach him, as the Arabs were unfriendly to 

 Livingstone's purposes. 



Chitapangwa, who was a great chief among his people, was 

 not long in seeking an audience with his white guest, whose goods 

 he appeared very anxious to inspect. The first meeting was a 

 very friendly one, during which Chitapangwa gave Livingstone a 

 Jarge cow, and begged him to remain several days in his country. 

 On the following day, however, when the cow was about to be 

 slaughtered, one of the chief's head men objected, saying that a 

 blanket must first be given ; as Livingstone had no blanket that 

 he could spare, a long palaver took place, which resulted in the 

 cow being sent back, and Livingstone's party had either to fast 

 or eat dried hippopotamus meat, that was anything but appetizing. 

 At his next audience with the chief, Livingstone declared his 

 intention to go a little way east to buy goats, but at this Chita- 

 pangwa appeared angry, and said that he would give the cow 

 first offered, which was finally brought and slaughtered. Chita- 

 pangwa was a singular creature, so jolly in his intercourse and 

 full of good promises, but provokingly chary about fulfilling 

 them. He wanted cloths, which were given to the value of two 

 or three cows ; but he still demanded a blanket, and was so per- 

 sistent that he refused Livingstone permission to depart until a 

 well-worn blanket belonging to one of the men was given him. 

 He had an idea that Livingstone's purpose in visiting his country 

 was for individual gain, and upon being assured that there was 

 no selfish object connected with the expedition, he pulled down 

 the umlerlid of his eye exactly like some of our precocious lads 

 when they ask, "Do you see anything green in my eye?" Liv- 

 ingstone finally obtained the confidence and good-will of the 

 chief, who then declared that he had given the cow in the first 

 place as an evidence of his friendship : that he had instructed 

 his head man to ask for a blanket, but in case this was refused 

 to give the cow anyhow, and beg the white man to send any 



