10 LECTURE I. 



slavers, and so they said I might give one of my men in 

 payment for what I wanted. When I shewed them that 

 I could not do this, they looked upon me as an interloper, 

 and I was sometimes in danger of being murdered. 



As we neared the coast, the name of England was re- 

 cognized, and we got on with ease. Upon one occasion, 

 when I was passing through the parts visited by slave- 

 traders, a chief 1 who wished to shew me some kindness 

 offered me a slave-girl : upon explaining that I had a 

 little girl of my own, whom I should not like my own 

 chief to give to a black man, the chief thought I was 

 displeased with the size of the girl, and sent me one a 

 head taller. By this and other means I convinced my 

 men of my opposition to the principle of slavery; and 

 when we arrived at Loanda I took them on board a 

 British vessel, where I took a pride in shewing them that 

 those countrymen of mine and those guns were there for 

 the purpose of putting down the slave-trade. They were 

 convinced from what they saw of the honesty of English- 

 men's intentions ; and the hearty reception they met with 



1 This was Shinte, or Kabombo, a Balonda chief. He gave our 

 traveller a grand reception, and treated him kindly. The kidnapping of 

 children and others by night, to sell for slaves, was an unhappy practice 

 of his. 



Dr Livingstone mentions five other Balonda chiefs, with four of 

 whom he had intercourse. Matiamvo, the paramount chief of all the 

 Balonda tribes, he did not visit, as he resides too far away to the North. 

 Those whom he saw were Manenko and Nyamoana, two female chiefs ; 

 also Masiko and Kawawa, two other chieftains. Interesting notices of 

 these are scattered through the book, especially of Shinte and Manenko, 

 who are related as uncle and niece. 



