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socuro the good-will of the rulers. The independent chiefs, 
not knowing why their favor is so eagerly sought, become 
excessively proud and supercilious in their demands, and 
look upon white men with the greatest contempt. To such 
lengths did the Bangala, a tribe near to which wo had now 
approached, proceed a few years ago, that they compelled 
the Portuguese traders to pay for water, wood, and even 
grass, and every possiblo pretext was invented for levying 
fines; and these were patiently submitted to so long as the 
slave-trado continued to flourish. We had unconsciously 
come in contact with a system which was quite unknown 
,n country from which my men had set out. An 
English trader may thero hear a demand for payment of 
guides, but never, so far as I am aware, is he asked to pay 
for leave to traverso a country. The idea does not seem 
to have entered the native mind, except through slave- 
traders; for the aborigines all acknowledge that the un- 
filled land, not needed for pasturage, belongs to God alone, 
and that no harm is done by people passing through it. I 
rather believe that, wherever the slave-trado has not pene- 
trated, the visits of strangers are esteemed a real privilege 
Ihe villago of old Ionga Panza (lat. 10°25'S., long. 20' 
15 E.) is small, and embowered in lofty evergreen trees, 
which were hung around with fine festoons of creepers. 
Ho sent us food immediately, and soon afterward a goat, 
which was considered a handsome gift, there being but few 
domestic animals, though the country is well adapted for 
them. I suspect this, like the country of Shinto and Ka- 
toma, must have been a tsetso district, and only recently 
Pondered capable of supporting other domestic animals be- 
*ides the goat by the destruction of the game through th« 
Extensive introduction of fire-arms. We might all have 
fioen as ignorant of the existence of this insect-plague as 
. e Portuguese, had it not been for the numerous migra- 
kons of pastoral tribes which took place in the south in 
°°nsequence of Zulu irruptions. 
During these excitiDg scenes I always forgot my fever,’ 
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