Chap. XV. 
DETAINED BY MANENKO. 
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true oratorical style, belabouring lier own servants as well for 
allowing tlie offence, and, as usual in more civilized feminine 
lectures, slie leaned over the objects of her ire, and screamed 
forth all their faults and failings ever since they were born, and 
her despair of ever seeing them become better, until they were 
all killed by alligators,” Masiko’s people followed the plan of 
receiving this torrent of abuse in silence, and, as neither we nor 
they had anything to eat, we parted next morning. In reference 
to Masiko selling slaves to the Mambari, they promised to ex¬ 
plain the relationship which exists between even the most abject 
of his people and our common Father; and that no more kid¬ 
napping ought to be allowed, as he ought to give that peace and 
security to the smaller tribes on his eastern borders, which he so 
much desired to obtain himself from the Makololo; we promised 
to return through his town when we came back from the sea- 
coast. 
Manenko gave us some manioc-roots in the morning, and had 
determined to carry our baggage to her uncle’s, Kabompo or 
Shinte. We had heard a sample of what she could do with her 
tongue; and as neither my men nor myself liad much inclination 
to encounter a scolding from tliis black Mrs, Caudle, we made 
ready the packages; but she came and said the men whom she 
had ordered for the service had not yet come; they would 
arrive to-morrow. Being on low and disagreeable diet, I felt 
annoyed at this further delay, and ordered the packages to be 
put into the canoes to proceed up the river without her servants; 
but Manenko was not to be cucumvented in this way; she came 
forward with her people, and said her uncle would be angry if 
she did not carry forward the tusks and goods of Sekeletu, seized 
the luggage, and declared that she would carry it in spite of 
me. My men succumbed sooner to this petticoat government 
than I felt inclined to do, and left me no power; and, being 
unwilling to encounter her tongue, I was moving off to the 
canoes, when she gave me a kind explanation, and, with her 
hand on my shoulder, put on a motherly look, saying, Now, 
my little man, just do as the rest have done.” My feelings of 
annoyance of course vanished, and I went out to try and get 
some meat. 
The only game to be found in these parts are, the zebra^ the 
