VISIT TO LONDA CHIEF. 
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chuanas (Kaffirs,) on the contrary, swear by 
their fathers, glory in the little bit of beard 
which distinguishes them from the sex which 
they despise, and though they have some idea 
of a future state, it exerts but little influence 
on their conduct. Their supreme God is a cow, 
and they never pray. 
u The first Londa Chief of importance, whom 
we visited, is called Shinte, or Kabompa. His 
town stands in latitude 13° South. (13° 0' 21".) 
We were received in, what they considered, 
grand style. The old chief sat under a species 
of u Ficus Indicoe" on a raised seat, having some 
hundreds of women behind him, all decked out 
in their best, and that best a profusion of 
red baize. Some drums and primitive instru- 
ments, made of wood, were powerfully beaten ; 
and different bands of men, each numbering 
about fifty or eighty persons, well armed with 
large bows and iron-headed arrows, short broad- 
swords and guns, rushed yelling towards us, 
from different quarters. As they all screwed 
up their faces, so as to look very fierce and sa- 
vage, I supposed they were trying whether 
they could not make us take to our heels. But 
they knelt down and made their obeisance to 
Shinte, which in all this country consists in 
rubbing dust on the upper and front part of 
the arms, and across the chest. When several 
