1867.] 



CHITAPANGWA'S STATE RECEPTION. 



18£ 



the other, or western side of the ridge, near which "Ma- 

 lemba " is situated, fish abound worth catching. 



Chitapangwa, or Motoka, as he is also called, sent to 

 inquire if we wanted an audience. "We must take some- 

 thing in our hands the first time we came before so great a 

 Being tired from marching, I replied, " Not till the 



man. 



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Chitapangwa. 



evening," and sent notice at 5 p.m. of my coming. We 

 passed through the inner stockade, and then on to an 

 enormous hut, where sat Chitapangwa, with three drummers 

 and ten or more men, with two rattles in their hands. The 

 drummers beat furiously, and the rattlers kept time to the 

 drums, two of them advancing and receding in a stooping- 

 posture, with rattles near the ground, as if doing the chief 

 obeisance, but still keeping time with the others. I declined 



