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PRESENTATION TO KATEMA 
11° 35' 49" S , long. 22° 27' E.) It is more a collection of 
villages than a town. Wo were led out about half a 
mile from the houses, that wo might make for ourselves 
tho best lodging wo could of the trees and grass, while 
Intemoso was taken to Katoma to undergo the usual pro 
cess of pumping as to our past conduct and professions 
Katoma soon afterward sent a handsome present of food. 
Next morning wo had a formal presentation, and found 
Katema seated on a sort of throne, with about three hun- 
dred men on the ground around, and thirty women, who 
were said to be his wives, closo behind him. The main 
body of the people were seated in a semicircle, at a dis 
tance of fifty yards. Each party had its own head-man 
stationed at a little distance in front, and, when beckoned 
by the chief, came near him as councillors. Intcmcse gave 
our history, and Katema placed sixteen large baskets of 
meal beforo us, half a dozen fowls, and a dozen eggs, and 
expressed regret that wo had slept hungry: he did not like 
any stranger to suffer want in his town ; and added, “Go 
homo and cook and cat, and you will then be in a fit state 
to speak to me at an audience I will give you to-morrow.” 
Ho was busily engaged in hearing the statements of a large 
body of fine young men who had fled from Kangenko, 
chief of Lobalo, on account of his selling their relatives to 
the native Portuguese who frequent his country. Katema 
is a tall man, about forty years of age, and his head was 
omamonted with a helmet of beads and feathers. Ho had 
on a snuff-brown coat, with a broad band of tinsel down 
the arms, and carried in his hand a largo tail made of tb« 
caudal extremities of a number of gnus. This has charm* 
attached to it, and he continued waving it in front of him- 
self all the time wo were there. He seemed in good spirit*? 
laughing heartily several times. This is a good sign, for » 
man who shakes his sides with mirth is soldom difficult to 
deal with. When wo rose to take loave, all rose with us? 
as at Shinto’s. 
Returning uext morning, Katema addressed mo tho*:*'' 
