CHAPTER VI. 



THROUGH LONDA. 



Reception at Shinte's Town — The Introduction — Private Interviews — Etiquette 

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

 Iron- Works — Flooded Plains — A Charming Home — Death and Desolate Vil- 

 lages — Balonda Ideas of a Future State— What to Preach to Heathen — Trou- 

 blesome Guide — Burial of the Dead — Mandans — Sioux — Patagonians — Bechu- 

 anas — Balonda — Sunday with Quendeude — Beautiful Country— The Lotembwa 

 — Katema— Exception — Provisions Presented— Wisdom of Katema — Cattle — 

 Birds in Cages — Birds and Beasts — Birds and Spiders— Human Spiders — Fevers 

 Again — Not much Impression — Heroism of Livingstone — Lake Dilolo — Rivers 

 Run Northward — Mambari Traders— Influence on Border Tribes — Demands 

 of Pay for Passing Through Country — Exjiected 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 — Portuguese Possessions — Sweet Sleep — Angels. 



Ox the morning of January 17th the spacious kotla of 

 Shinte's town presented its grandest appearance. The kotla, 

 we may remark, is an open space commonly reserved in the 

 towns of this part of Africa for purposes of public interest, and 

 renders service as temple, council chamber, or dancing hall, as 

 occasion may demand. The throne of the chief was under the 

 broad leaves of a splendid banyan tree, which seemed almost 

 conscious of its dignity in spreading a canopy over a chieftain's 

 head. Shinte was arrayed in his best. The checked jacket and 

 kilt of baize were aided by a crown of woven beads and a waving 

 bunch of feathers. Just behind the chief were seated a hundred 

 women, and nearly a thousand men were ranged in the broad 

 circumference of the place. 



The guests advanced into the kotla escorted by the subject 

 lord of the matron captain of the wilderness march, who ap- 

 proached Shinte first, followed by Manenko's people, who did 

 the national obeisance in style. Dr. Livingstone was seated 

 under the banyan, which furnished a broad shade, facing the 



chief. Then came the representatives of all the sections of the 



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