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their elbows; while others still touch the ground with one 

 cheek after the other, and clap their hands. The chiefs go 

 through the manoeuvre of rubbing the sand on the arms, 

 but only make a feint of picking up some. "When Sam- 

 banza had finished his- oration, he rose up and showed his 

 ankles ornamented with a bundle of copper rings : had 

 I hey been very heavy they would have made him adopt a 

 straggling walk. Some chiefs have really so many as to be 

 forced, by cbe weight and size, to keep one foot apart from 

 the other, the weight being a serious inconvenience in 

 walking. The gentlemen like Sambanza, who wish to 

 imitate their betters, Ho so in their walk; so you see men 

 with only a few ounces of ornament on their legs strutting 

 along as if they had double the number of pounds. When 

 I smiled at Sambanza's walk, the people remarked, " That 

 is the way in which they show off their lordship in these 

 parts." 



Manenko was quite decided in the adoption of the policy 

 of friendship with the Makololo which we recommended; 

 and, by way of cementing the bond, she and her coun- 

 sellors proposed that Kolimbota should take a wife among 

 them. Kolimbota, I found, thought favorably of tho pro- 

 position, and it afterward led to his desertion from us. 



On the evening of the day in which Manenko arrived, 

 we were delighted by the appearance of Mosantu and an 

 imposing embassy from Masiko. It consisted of all his 

 under-chiefs; and they brought a fine elephant's tusk, two 

 calabashes of honey, and a large piece of blue baizo, as a 

 present. The last was intended perhaps to show mo that 

 he was a truly great chief, who had such stores of white 

 men's goods at hand that he could afford to give presents 

 of them ; it might also be intended for Mosantu, for chiefs 

 usually remember the servants : I gave it to him. Masiko 

 expressed delight, by his principal men, at the return of 

 the captives, and at the proposal of peace and alliance 

 with the Makololo. He stated that he never soil any of 

 his own people to the Mambari, bu/"i only captives whom 



