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VILLAGE OF lONGA PANZA. 
Chap. XVIII. 
had set out. An English trader may there hear a demand for 
payment of guides, hut never, so far as I am aware, is he asked 
to pay for leave to traverse a country. The idea does hot 
seem to have entered the native mind, except through slave- 
traders, for the aborigines all acknowledge that the untilled 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-trade has not penetrated, the visits of 
strangers are esteemed a real privilege. 
The village of old Tonga 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. He sent us food 
immediately, and soon afterwards a goat, which was considered a 
handsome gift, there being but few domestic animals, though the 
country is well adapted for them. 1 suspect this, like the country 
of Shinte and Katema, must have been a tsetse district, and only 
recently rendered capable of supporting other domestic animals 
besides the goat, by the destruction of the game through the 
extensive introduction of fire-arms. We might all have been as 
ignorant of the existence of this insect-plague as the Portuguese, 
had it not been for the numerous migrations of pastoral tribes, 
which took place in the south in consequence of Zulu irruptions. 
During these exciting scenes 1 always forgot my fever, but 
a terrible sense of sinking came back with the feeling of safety. 
The same demand of payment for leave to pass, was made on 
the 20th by old Tonga Panza as by the other Chiboque. 1 
offered the shell presented by Shinte, but Tonga Panza said 
he was too old for ornaments. We might have succeeded very 
well with him, for he was by no means unreasonable, and had 
but a very small village of supporters; but our two guides from 
I^angenke complicated our difficulties by sending for a body of 
Bangala traders, with a vieAv to force us to sell the tusks of 
Sekeletu and pay them with the price. We offered to pay 
them handsomely, if they would perform their promise of guid¬ 
ing us to Cassange, but they knew no more of the paths than 
we did; and my men had paid them repeatedly, and tried to 
get rid of them, but could not. They now joined with our 
enemies, and so did the traders. Two guns and some beads, 
belonging to the latter, were standing in our encampment, and 
