WELCOME FROM 8HINTE. 
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thoir food, and Katoma was not behindhand. \V hon ha 
Visited our encampment, I presented him with a cloak of 
rod baize, ornamented with gold tinsel, which cost thirty 
shillings, according to the promiso I had made in going to 
Londa ; also a cotton robe, both largo and small beads, an 
iron spoon, and a tin pannikin containing a quarter of a 
pound of powder. Ho soomed greatly pleased with the 
liberality shown, and assured mo that tho way was mine, 
sod that no one should molest mo in it if ho could help it. 
Leaving Katema’s town on tho 19th, and proceeding 
four miles to tho eastward, we forded the southern branch 
of Lake Dilolo. Wo found it a mile and a quarter broad; 
and, as it flows into tho Lotombwa, tho lako would seem 
to bo a drain of tho surrounding flats, and to partako of 
tho character of a fountain. The ford was waist doep, and 
vory difficult, from tho masses of arum and rushes through 
which wo waded. Going to the eastward about throe 
■nilos, wo came to tho Southern Lotombwa itself, running 
in a valley two miles broad. It is hero eighty or ninety 
yards wido, and contains numerous islands covered with 
dense sylvan vegetation. 
We traversed tho extended plain on tho north bank of 
the Leoba, and crossed this river a littlo farther on at Kan- 
yonWs villago, which is about twenty miles west of tho 
Peri Hills, our former ford. The first stage beyond the 
Leebo, was at tho rivulet Loamba, by tho village of Cho- 
hende, nephew of Shinto; and next day wo met Chebondo 
himnolf returning from tho funeral of Samoana, his father. 
He was thin and haggard-looking compared to what he 
had hcon beforo, — tho probable effect of the orgies in which 
he had been engaged. 
Wo reached our friend Shinto, and recoivod a hearty 
welcome from this friendly old man, and abundant pro- 
visions of tho best he had. On hearing a report of the 
journey given by my companions, and receiving a picco 
°f cotton cloth about two yards square, ho said, “Theao 
Hambari cheat us by bringing littlo pieces only; but the 
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