352 VILLAGE OF IONGA LANZA. Chap. XVIII. 



had set out. An English trader may there hear a demand for 

 payment of guides, but never, so far as I am aware, is he asked 

 to pay for leave to traverse a country. The idea does not 

 seem to have entered the native mind, except through slave- 

 traders, for the aborigines all acknowledge that the unfilled land, 

 not needed for pasturage, belongs to God alone, and that no 

 harm is done by people passing through it. I rather believe 

 that, wherever the slave-trade has not penetrated, the visits of 

 strangers are esteemed a real privilege. 



The village of old Ionga Panza (lat, 10° 25' &, long. 20° 15' E.) 

 is small and embowered in lofty evergreen trees, which were 

 hung around with fine festoons of creepers. He sent us food 

 immediately, and soon afterwards a goat, winch was considered a 

 handsome gift, there being but few domestic animals, though the 

 country is well adapted for them. I suspect this, like the country 

 of Shinte and Katema, must have been a tsetse district, and only 

 recently rendered capable of supporting other domestic animals 

 besides the goat, by the destruction of the game through the 

 extensive introduction of fire-arms. We might all have been as 

 ignorant of the existence of this insect-plague as the Portuguese, 

 had it not been for the numerous migrations of pastoral tribes, 

 which took place in the south in consequence of Zulu irruptions. 



During these exciting scenes I always forgot my fever, but 

 a terrible sense of sinking came back with the feeling of safety. 

 The same demand of payment for leave to pass, was made on 

 the 20th by old Ionga Panza as by the other Chiboque. I 

 offered the shell presented by Shinte, but Ionga Panza said 

 he was too old for ornaments. We might have succeeded very 

 well with him, for he was by no means unreasonable, and had 

 but a very small village of supporters ; but our two guides from 

 Kangenke complicated our difficulties by sending for a body of 

 Bangala traders, with a view to force us to sell the tusks of 

 Sekeletu and pay them with the price. We offered to pay 

 them handsomely, if they would perform their promise of guid- 

 ing us to Cassange, but they knew no more of the paths than 

 we did ; and my men had paid them repeatedly, and tried to 

 get rid of them, but could not. They now joined with our 

 enemies, and so did the traders. Two guns and some beads, 

 belonging to the latter, were standing in our encampment, and 



