CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER XIV. 



ncreasing Beauty of the Country — Mode of spending the Day — The People 

 and the Falls of Gonye — A Makololo Foray — A second prevented, and Cap- 

 tives delivered up — Politeness and Liberality of the People — The Rains — 

 Present of Oxen — Death from a Lion's Bite at Libonta — Continued Kindness 

 — Arrangements for spending the Night during the Journey — Cooking and 

 Washing — Abundance of Animal Life — Alligators — Narrow Escape of one 

 of my Men — Superstitious Feelings respecting the Alligator — Large Game — 

 Shoals of Fish — Hippopotami Page 138 



CHAPTER XV. 



Message to Masiko, the Barotse Chief, regarding the Captives — Navigation of 

 the Leeambye — Capabilities of this District — The Leeba — Buffalo-Hunt>— 

 Suspicion of the Balonda — Sekelenke's Present — Message from Manenko, a 

 Female Chief — Mambari Traders — A Dream — Sheak6ndo and his People — 

 Interview with Nyamo£na, another Female Chief — Court Etiquette — Hair 

 versus Wool — Increase of Superstition — Arrival of Manenko : her Appear- 

 ance and Husband — Mode of Salutation — Anklets — Embassy, with a Present 

 from Masiko — Roast Beef — Manioc — Magic Lantern — Manenko an Accom- 

 plished Scold: compels us to wait 148 



CHAPTER XVI. 



Nyamoana's Present — Charms — Manenko's Pedestrian Powers — Rain — Hunger 

 — Dense Forests — Artificial Bee-Hives — Villagers lend the Roofs of their 

 Houses — Divination and Idols — Manenko's Whims — Shinte's Messengers 

 and Present — The Proper Way to approach a Village — A Merman — Enter 

 Shinte's Town : its Appearance — Meet two Half-Caste Slave-Traders — The 

 Makololo scorn them — The Balonda Real Negroes — Grand Reception from 

 Shinte — His Kotla — Ceremony of Introduction — The Orators — Women — 

 Musicians and Musical Instruments — A Disagreeable Request — Private In- 

 terviews with Shinte — Give him an Ox — Manenko's New Hut — Conversa- 

 tion with Shinte — Koliiub6ta's Proposal — Balonda's Punctiliousness — Selling 

 Children — Kidnapping — Shinte's Ofl'er of a Slave — Magic Lantern — Alarm 

 of Women — Delay — Saiub&nza returns intoxicated — The Last and Greatest 

 Proof of Shinte's Friendship 162 



CHAPTER XVII. 



Leave Shinte — Manioc-Gardens — Presents of Food — Punctiliousness of the 

 Balonda — Cazembe — Inquiries for English Cotton Goods — Intemese's Fiction 

 — Loss of Pontoon — Plains covered with Water — A Night on an Island — 

 Loan of the Roofs of Huts — A Halt — Omnivorous Fish — Natives' Mode of 

 catching them — The Village of a Half-Brother of Katema : his Speech and 

 Present— Our Guide's Perversity — Mozenkwa's Pleasant Home and Family 

 —A Messenger from Katema — Quendende's Village : his Kindness — Crop 

 of Wool — Meet People from the Town of Matiamvo — Fireside Talk— Ma- 

 tiamvo's Character and Conduct — Presentation at Katema's Court : his Pre- 

 sent — Interview on the following Day — Cattle — A Feast and a Makololo 

 Dance — Sagacity of Ants }80 



