RECEPTION BY SHINTE. 135 



On this occasion no communication passed between Livingstone and 

 Shinte. By some mistake, the former was permitted to take a seat at a con- 

 siderable distance from the latter; and the one being too dignified to approach 

 his guest, and the other imagining that all was according to etiquette at 

 Kabompo, they parted without exchanging a word ; but it was remarked by 

 his attendants that Shinte scarcely took his eyes off Livingstone during the 

 interview. Next day Livingstone was commanded to visit him, and found 

 him frank and straightforward ; he was about fifty-five years of age, about 

 the middle height, and of dignified bearing. After discussing Livingstone's 

 plans, he signified his approval of them. After the business was over, 

 Livingstone inquired if he had ever seen a white man before. " Never; you 

 are the very first man I have seen with a white skin and straight hair; your 

 clothing, too, is different from any we have ever seen." 



On receiving a hint that " Shinte's mouth was bitter for want of tasting 

 ox-flesh," Livingstone presented him with one to his great delight, recom- 

 mending him to trade in cows with the Makololo, as his country was so well 

 adapted for them. When he visited him on the return journey Livingstone 

 found that this shrewd savage had followed his advice. When Manenko, who 

 was busy preparing a hut and court-yard suitable to her pretensions, heard 

 that the white man had presented her uncle with an ox, she was very wroth. 

 " This white man belonged to her. She had brought him, and therefore the 

 ox was hers, not Shinte's," and ordering her men to bring it, she had it 

 slaughtered, only sending her uncle a leg, with which he appeared to be quite 

 contented. She evidently had her own way with him, as with all others with 

 whom she came in contact. 



The magic lantern was a never-failing source of interest and instruction 

 everywhere ; the simple savages never tired of looking at the pictures, many 

 of them travelling miles to see them ; chiefs and people inquiring minutely as 

 to the meaning of every picture. As many of them were illustrations of 

 Scripture subjects, he found it a ready means of introducing them to Bible 

 truths. A kind of beer or mead is largely drunk among the Balonda, and . 

 many cases of intoxication, — a thing unknown further south, — were observed. 

 Sambanza, the husband of Manenko, got hopelessly tipsy on one occasion, 

 and staggered towards the hut of his wife ; and although, as Livingstone 

 says, she " had never promised ' to love, honour, and obey him,' she had not 

 been ' nursing her wrath to keep it warm,' so she coolly bundled him into the 

 hut, and put him to bed." 



At their last interview, Shinte presented Livingstone with a string of 

 beads, and the end of a common sea-shell mounted with string, " which is 

 considered in regions far from the sea of as great value as the Lord Mayor's 

 badge in London. He hung it round my neck, and said, ' There, now you 

 have a proof of my friendship.' " For two such shells he afterwards found a 



