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left mo no power; and, being unwilling to encounter hoi 
tonguo, I was moving off to tho canoes, when sho gavo me 
a kind explanation, and, with her hand on my shouldor, 
put on a mothorly look, saying, “Now, my little man, just 
do as the rest havo done.” My feelings of annoyance of 
course vanished. 
CHAPTER XYI. 
DB. LIVINGSTONE VISITS SHINTE, CHIEF OF THE DALONDA 
11 th of January, 1854. — On starting this morning, Samoana 
(or rather Nyamoana, for tho ladies are tho chiefs hero) 
presented a string of beads, and a sholl highly valued 
among thorn, as an atonement for having assistod Manenko, 
as they thought, to vox me the day before. They scorned 
anxious to avert any evil which might arise from my dis- 
pleasure; but, having replied that I never kept my anger 
up all night, they were much pleased to seo mo satisfied 
We had to cross, in a canoe, a stream which flows past 
tho village of Nyamoana. Mancnko’s doctor waved somo 
charms over hor, and sho took somo in her band and on 
her body before she ventured upon tho water. One of my 
men spoko rather loudly when near tho doctor’s basket of 
medicinos. Tho doctor reproved him, and always spoke 
in a whisper himself, glancing back to tho basket as if 
afraid of being heard by something therein. So much 
superstition is quite unknown in the Bouth, and is men- 
tioned hero to show tho difforcnco in tho feelings of this 
now peoplo, and the comparative want of reverence on 
those points among Caffres and Bechuanas. 
Manenko was accompanied by hor husband and her 
drummer , the latter continued to thump most vigorously 
until a heavy, drizzling mist sot in and compelled him to 
