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posod. Tho native Portuguese and Mambari went folly 
armed with guns, in order to give Shinte a saluto, their 
drummer and trumpeter making all tho noiso that very 
old instruments would produce. Tho kotla, or place of 
audience, was about a hundred yards square, and two 
graceful specimens of a species of banian stood near ono 
end; under ono of these sat Shinto, on a sort of throns 
covered with a leopard’s skin. Ho had orv a checked 
jacket and a kilt of scarlet baizo edged with green; many 
strings of largo beads hung from his neck, and his limbs 
wore covered wivh iron and copper armlets and bracelets, 
on his head ho wore a liolmet made of beads wovon neatly 
together and crowned with a great bunch of goose-feathors. 
Close to him sat threo lads with, largo sheaves of arrows 
over their shouldors. 
Whon wo ontoroo tho kotla, tho wliolo of Manenko’s 
party saluted Shinto by clapping thoir hands, and Sam- 
banza did oboisanco by rubbing his chest and arms with 
ashes. Ono of tho trees boing unoccupied, I retreated to 
it for tho sake of the shade, and my wholo party did tho 
samo. IVo wero now about forty yards from tho chiof, 
and could see tho wholo ceremony. Tho different sections 
of the tribe catno forward in the samo way that wo did, 
tho head-man of each making obcisanco with ashes which 
he carried with him for tho purposo ; then camo tho sol- 
diers, all armed to tho teeth, running and shouting toward 
us, with their swords drawn and their faces screwed up so 
ns to appear as savago as possiblo, for tho purposo, I 
thought, of trying whether they could not make us tako to 
our hools. As wo did not, they tumod round toward 
Shinto and saluted him, then retired. When all had come 
and were seated, then began tho curious capering usually 
soon in pichos. A man starts up, and imitates tho most 
approved attitudes observed in actual fight, as throwing 
one javelin, receiving another on tho shield, springing to 
one side to avoid a third, running backward or forward, 
taping, &o. This over, Sambanza and tho spokesman of 
