192 PRESENTATION TO KATEMA. 



1 1° 35' 49" S., long. 22° 27' E.) It is more a collection oi 

 villages than a town. We were led out about half a 

 mile from the houses, that we might make for ourselves 

 the best lodging we could of the trees and grass, while 

 Intemese was taken to Katema to undergo the usual pro- 

 cess of pumping as to our past conduct and professions. 

 Katema soon afterward sent a handsome present of food. 



Next morning we had a formal presentation, and found 

 Katema seated on a sort of throne, with about three hun- 

 dred men on the ground around, and thirty women, who 

 were said to be his wives, close behind him. The main 

 body of the people were seated in a semicircle, at a dis- 

 tance of fifty yards. Each party had its own head-man 

 stationed at a little distance in front, and, when beckoned 

 by the chief, came near him as councillors. Intemese gave 

 our history, and Katema placed sixteen large baskets of 

 meal before us, half a dozen fowls, and a dozen eggs, and 

 expressed regret that we had slept hungry: he did not like 

 any stranger to suffer want in his town; and added, "Go 

 home and cook and eat, and you will then be in a fit state 

 to speak to me at an audience I will give you to-morrow." 

 He was busily engaged in hearing the statements of a large 

 body of fine young men who had fled from Kangenke, 

 chief of Lobale, on account of his selling their relatives to 

 the native Portuguese who frequent his country. Katema 

 is a tall man, about forty years of age, and his head was 

 ornamented with a helmet of beads and feathers. He had 

 on a snuff-brown coat, with a broad band of tinsel down 

 the arms, and carried in his hand a large tail made of the 

 caudal extremities of a number of gnus. This has charms 

 attached to it, and he continued waving it in front of him- 

 self all the time we were there. He seemed in good spirits, 

 laughing heartily several times. This is a good sign, for a 

 man who shakes his sides with mirth is seldom difficult to 

 deal with. When we rose to take leave, all rose with us, 

 as at Shinte's. 



.Returning next morning, Katema addressed me thus: — 



