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GUIDES PREPAID. 
no more troubled by the demand for an ox ! We now 
slaughtered another ox, that the spectacle might not be 
seen of the owners of the cattle fasting while the Chiboque 
were feasting. 
CHAPTER XIX. 
DK. LIVINGSTONE REACHES THE WEST COAST OP AFRICA. 
24 tli . — Ionga Panza’s sons agreed to act as guides into 
the territory of the Portuguese if I would give them the 
shell given by Shinte. I was strongly averse to this, and 
especially to give it beforehand, but yielded to the entreaty 
of my people to appear as if showing confidence in these hope- 
ful youths. They urged that they wished to leave the shell 
with their wives as a sort of payment to them for enduring 
their husbands’ absence so long. Having delivered the pre- 
cious shell, we went west-by-north to the river Chikapa, 
which here (lat. 10° 22' S.) is forty or fifty yards wide, 
and at present was deep; it vvas seen flowing over a rocky, 
broken cataract with great noise about half a mile above 
our ford. We were ferried over in a canoo made out of a 
single piece of bark sowed together at the ends, and having 
sticks placed in it at different parts to act as ribs. 
Next morning our guides went only about a mile, and 
thou told us they would return home. I expected this 
whon paying them beforehand, in accordance with the en- 
treaties of the Makololo, who are rather ignorant of the 
world. Very energetic remonstrances were addressed to 
the guides, but they slipped off one by one in the thick 
forest through which we wore passing, and I was glad to 
near my companions coming to the conclusion that, as we 
were now in parts visited by traders, wo did not require 
the guides, whose chief use had been to prevent misuppro- 
bonsion of cur objects in the minds of the villagers. 
