CONTESTS. y 



CHAPTER VI. 



THROUGH LONDA. 



Reception at Shinte's Town— The Introduction— Private Interviews— Eti- 

 quette of the Balonda— Love for Mothers— Slavery— Theft— Magic Lantern 

 — Rains — Iron-works — Flooded Plains — A Charming Home — Death and 

 Desolate Villages — Balonda Ideas of a Future State— What to Preach to 

 Heathen— Troublesome Guide— Burial of the Dead — Mandans— Sioux — 

 Patagonians — Bechuanas — Balonda — Sunday with Quendende — Beautiful 

 Country — The Lotembwa— Katema — Reception — Provisions Presented — 

 "Wisdom of Katema — Cattle — Birds in Cages — Birds and Beasts — Birds and 

 Spiders — Human Spiders — Fevers Again — Not much Impression — Hero- 

 ism of Livingstone — Lake Dilolo — Rivers Run Northward — Mambari Trad- 

 ers — Influence on Border Tribes — Demands of Pay for Passing Through 

 Country— Expected to Fight — An Ox Given— A Man Demanded— Sickness 

 of Livingstone — Mutiny in his Camp — Its Cure — Men Repent — The 

 Quango at Last — Bashange's Tax — Cypriano di Abrue's Kindness — Portu- 

 guese Possessions — Sweet Sleep — Angels 145 



CHAPTER VII. 



ANGOLA. 



Anxiety — A Single Englishman — Sickness — Mr. Gabriel's Kindness — Settle- 

 ment of Loanda — Portuguese Failure — Two Things Unfortunate — Mako- 

 lolo at Work — The Ship" a Town " — Livingstone's Relapse — Long Illness 

 — What Might have Been — Slave Trade — Slavery in Africa — Grounds of 

 Livingstone's Opposition — Negligent Cultivation of the Soil — Two Shil- 

 lings a Month — Fetich Worshij) — Portuguese Policy — Ivory Trade — Un- 

 paid Labor — Mania for Litigation — " Big Funerals " — The Poison Ordeal 

 — Wild Animals — The Self-denial — Looking Eastward — Departure from 

 Loanda — Makololo Boastings — The "True Ancients" — A Remarkable 

 Insect — Ambaca — Church or Jail — Catholic Mistake — Pungo Andongo — 

 On the Road — Difficulties of Ox-Biding — Traders — Beeswax and Elephant 

 Tusks — Liliputian Monster — Descending from " Tola Mungongo " — Cas- 

 sange — Drunkenness — The Quango Again 170 



CHAPTER VIII. 



LONDA OR LINDA. 



Lessons of Experience — Sansawe's Demands — His Refusal — A Blow on the 

 Beard — Revenge — Changing the Tune — Dandies and Belles — Lizards and 

 Snakes — Seven Thousand Fowls for Ten Dollars — Many Village Mania — 

 The Seasons — Sister of Matianioo — An Ox or a Man — Strategy — Trial for 

 Murder — Street Fight — Dish of White Ants — Lovely Bed of Flowers — God 

 in Nature — A Noble Chief — Shinte's Again — The Leeba — Life Once More 

 — Buffalo Hunt — Libonta Welcome — Thanksgiving Service — A Matrimo- 

 nial Drawback — Capsized in the Leeambye — Sekeletu in Full Dress — The 

 True Ancients in White — Promising Opening — Preparation for the Jour- 

 ney — Going Eastward — Parting Words of Mamire — The Tribute of Faith- 

 fulness 195 



