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and lie took good care to give the means of doing so. All the 

 people in these parts were extremely kind and liberal with 

 their food, and Katema was not behindhand. When he visited 

 our encampment I presented him, according to the promise I 

 had made in going to Loanda, with a cloak of red baize, orna- 

 mented with gold tinsel, which cost thirty shillings, as well 

 as a cotton robe, large and small beads, an iron spoon, and 

 a tin pannikin containing a quarter of a pound of powder 

 He seemed greatly pleased with the liberality shown, and 

 asked if I could not make a dress for him like the one I wore, 



Barotse Salutations. 



so that he might appear as a white man when any stranger 

 visited him. On departing he mounted on the shoulders of 

 his spokesman, as the most dignified mode of retiring. The 

 spokesman being a slender man, and the chief six feet high 



