xv i CONTENTS. 



Instruments. — A disagreeable Request. — Private Interviews with Shinte. — Give 

 him an Ox. — Fertility of Soil. — Manenko's new Hut. — Conversation with Shinte. 

 — Kolimbota's Proposal. — Balonda's Punctiliousness. — Selling Children. — Kid- 

 napping. — Shinte's Offer of a Slave. — Magic Lantern. — Alarm of Women. — De- 

 lay. — Sambanza returns intoxicated. — The last and greatest Proof of Shinte's 

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CHAPTER XVII. 



Leave Shinte. — Manioc Gardens. — Mode of preparing the poisonous kind. — 

 Its general Use. — Presents of Food. — Punctiliousness of the Balonda. — 

 Their Idols and Superstition. — Dress of the Balonda. — Villages beyond 

 Lonaje. — Cazembe. — Our Guides and the Makololo. — Night Rains. — Inqui- 

 ries for English cotton Goods. — Intemese's Fiction. — Visit from an old Man. — 

 Theft. — Industry of our Guide. — Loss of Pontoon. — Plains covered with 

 Water. — Affection of the Balonda for their Mothers. — A Night on an Isl- 

 and. — The Grass on the Plains. — Source of the Rivers. — Loan of the Roofs 

 of Huts. — A Halt. — Fertility of the Country through which the Lokalueje 

 flows. — 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. — Clear Water of the flooded Rivers. — 

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

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

 vo's Character and Conduct. — Presentation at Katema's Court i his Present, 

 good Sense, and Appearance. — Interview on the following Day. — Cattle. — A 

 Feast and a Makololo Dance. — Arrest of a Fugitive. — Dignified old Courtier. — 

 Katema's lax Government. — Cold Wind from the North. — Canaries and other 

 singing Birds. — Spiders, their Nests and Webs. — Lake Dilolo. — Tradition. — Sa- 

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CHAPTER XVIII. 

 The Watershed between the northern and southern Rivers. — A deep Valley. — 

 Rustic Bridge. — Fountains on the Slopes of the Valleys. — Village of Ka- 

 binje.— Good Effects of the Belief in the Power of Charms.— Demand for Gun- 

 powder and English Calico. — The Kasai. — Vexatious Trick. — Want of Food. — 

 No Game. — Katende's unreasonable Demand. — A grave Offense. — Toll-bridge 

 Keeper. — Greedy Guides. — Flooded Valleys. — Swim the Nuana Loke. — 

 Prompt Kindness of my Men. — Makololo Remarks on the rich uncultivated 

 Valleys. — Difference in the Color of Africans. — Reach a Village of the Chi- 

 boque.— The Head Man's impudent Message. — Surrounds our Encampment with 

 his Warriors. — The Pretense. — Their Demand. — Prospect of a Fight. — Way in 

 which it was averted. — Change our Path. — Summer. — Fever. — Beehives and the 

 Honey-guide. — Instinct of Trees.— Climbers.— The Ox Sinbad.— Absence of 

 Thorns in the Forests. — Plant peculiar to a forsaken Garden.— Bad Guides. — 

 Insubordination suppressed. — Beset by Enemies. — A Robber Party. — More 

 Troubles. —Detained by Ionga Panza. — His Village. — Annoyed by Bangala 

 Traders. — My Men discouraged. — Their Determination and Precaution 355 



CHAPTER XIX. 

 Guides prepaid.— Bark Canoes.— Deserted by Guides.— Mistakes respecting the 

 Coanza.— Feelings of freed Slaves.— Gardens and Villages.— Native Traders.— 



