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left me no power; and, being unwilling to encounter hei 

 tongue, I was moving off to the canoes, when she gave me 

 a kind explanation, and, with her hand on my shoulder, 

 put on a motherly look, saying, "Now, my little man, just 

 do as the rest have done." My feelings of annoyance of 

 course vanished. 



CHAPTER XVI. 



DR. LIVINGSTONE VISITS SHINTE, CHIEF OP THE BALONDA. 



11th of January, 185-1. — On starting this morning, Samoana 

 (or rather Nyamoana, for the ladies are the chiefs here) 

 presented a string of beads, and a shell highly valued 

 among them, as an atonement for having assisted Manenko, 

 as they thought, to vex me the day before. They seemed 

 anxious to avert any evil which might arise from my dis- 

 pleasure; but, having replied that I never kept my anger 

 up all night, they were much pleased to see me satisfied. 

 We had to cross, in a canoe, a stream which flows past 

 the village of Nyamoana. Manenko's doctor waved some 

 charms over her, and she took some in her hand and on 

 her body before she ventured upon the water. One of my 

 men spoke rather loudly when near the doctor's basket of 

 medicines. The doctor reproved him, and always spoke 

 in a whisper himself, glancing back to the basket as if 

 afraid of being heard by something therein. So much 

 superstition is quite unknown in the south, and is men- 

 tioned here to show the difference in the feelings of this 

 new people, and the comparative want of reverence on 

 these points among Caffres and Bechuanas. 



Manenko was accompanied by her husband and her 

 drummer; the latter continued to thump most vigorously 

 until a heavy, drizzling mist set in and compelled him to 



