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posed. The native Portuguese and Mambari went fully 

 armed with guns, in order to give Shinte a salute, their 

 drummer and trumpeter making all the noise that very- 

 old instruments would pi*oduce. The kotla, or place of 

 audience, was about a hundred yards square, and two 

 graceful specimens of a species of banian stood near one 

 end; under one of these sat Shinte, on a sort of throne 

 covered with a leopard's skin. He had on a checked 

 jacket and a kilt of scarlet baize edged with green ; many 

 strings of large beads hung from his neck, and his limbs 

 were covered wi\h iron and copper armlets and bracelets; 

 on his head he wore a helmet made of beads woven neatly 

 together and crowned with a great bunch of goose-feathers. 

 Close to him sat three lads with large sheaves of arrows 

 over their shoulders. 



"When we entered the kotla, the whole of Manenko's 

 party saluted Shinte by clapping their hands, and Sam- 

 banza did obeisance by rubbing his Ghest and arms with 

 ashes. One of the trees being unoccupied, I retreated to 

 it for the sake of the shade, and my whole party did the 

 same. We were now aboat forty yards from the chief, 

 and could see the whole ceremony. The different sections 

 of the tribe came forward in the same way that we did, 

 the head-man of each making obeisance with ashes which 

 he carried with him for the purpose; then came the sol- 

 diers, all armed to the teeth, running and shouting towai'd 

 us, with their swords drawn and their faces screwed up so 

 as to appear as savage as possible, for the purpose, I 

 thought, of trying whether they could not make us take to 

 our heels. As we did not, they turned round toward 

 Shinte and saluted him, then retired. "When all had come 

 and were seated, then began tte curious capering usually 

 seen in pichos. A man starts up, and imitates the most 

 approved attitudes observed in actual fight, as throwing 

 one javelin, receiving another on the shield, springing to 

 one side to avoid a third, running backward or forward, 

 leaping, &c. This over, Sambanza and the spokesman of 



