CHAPTER XXIV. 



FROM LAKE TO LAKE. 



Cbitapanga's Stockade — An Offering Required — Audience with the Chief- 

 Ceremony of Introduction — Chitapanga as he was — Some Trouble — Lying 

 Interpreters — Arab Traders — Letters Sent Home — Quits Chitapanga's — The 

 Chief's Parting Oath — Appearance of Country — Troublesome Customs — Sus- 

 picion of the Chiefs — A Familiar Trick— Eagerness for Trade — Moaniba at 

 Home — Chief and Judge — The Moemba — The Hopo — Bows and Arrows — 

 Illness— Kasonso's Reception — Assaulted by Ants — Cotton — Lake Liemba — 

 Palm Oil — The Balungu — Severe Illness — Arabs — Chitimba's Village — A 

 Long Delay — Nsama — The Baulungu — Industries — Cupping — Charms — Dull 

 Life — Slave-Trade — Little Things — A Large Spider — At Hara — Reception at 

 Nsama's — A Bride in Style — "Tipo Tipo" — " Kumba Kumba" — Itawa — 

 Desertion — Slavery Question — Different Motives — Arabs on the March — Arab 

 Traders — A Fantastic Party — Potency of Sneers in Africa — Delays — Lake 

 Moero at Last. 



Ox the 31st of January our traveller led his party across the 

 Lopiri, the rivulet which waters the stockade of Chitapanga. 

 This was quite a formidable-looking structure. Besides a triple 

 stockade, the village is defended by a deep, broad ditch, and 

 hedge of thorny shrub. 



The messengers from the great chief soon approached to inquire 

 if the traveller desired an audience, and instructing him that 

 their custom required every one to take something in his hand 

 the first time he came before so great a man as Chitapanga. 

 Being tired from marching, Livingstone deferred his visit to the 

 chief until evening. At 5 P. m. he sent notice of his coming. 

 Passing through the inner stockade and then on to an enormous 

 hut, he entered the presence of the chief. His Majesty was 

 seated on the three-legged stool, which is one of the peculiar 

 institutions of the country. Near him were three drummers, 

 beating furiously, and ten or more men with odd-looking rattles 

 in their hands, with which they kept time to the drums, while 

 seated and standing all about in the background were hundreds 

 of eager subjects who gazed with deepest interest on the reception. 



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