Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa | Page 8

Death from a Lion's Bite at Libonta
-- Continued Kindness -- Arrangements for spending the Night during
the Journey -- Cooking and Washing -- Abundance of animal Life --
Different Species of Birds -- Water-fowl -- Egyptian Geese --
Alligators -- Narrow Escape of one of my Men -- Superstitious
Feelings respecting the Alligator -- Large Game -- The most vulnerable
Spot -- Gun Medicine -- A Sunday -- Birds of Song -- Depravity; its
Treatment -- Wild Fruits -- Green Pigeons -- Shoals of Fish --
Hippopotami.

Chapter 15.
Message to Masiko, the Barotse Chief, regarding the Captives --
Navigation of the Leeambye -- Capabilities of this District -- The Leeba
-- Flowers and Bees -- Buffalo-hunt -- Field for a Botanist -- Young
Alligators; their savage Nature -- Suspicion of the Balonda --
Sekelenke's Present -- A Man and his two Wives -- Hunters -- Message
from Manenko, a female Chief -- Mambari Traders -- A Dream --
Sheakondo and his People -- Teeth-filing -- Desire for Butter --
Interview with Nyamoana, another female Chief -- Court Etiquette --
Hair versus Wool -- Increase of Superstition -- Arrival of Manenko; her
Appearance and Husband -- Mode of Salutation -- Anklets -- Embassy,
with a Present from Masiko -- Roast Beef -- Manioc -- Magic Lantern
-- Manenko an accomplished Scold: compels us to wait -- Unsuccessful
Zebra-hunt.

Chapter 16.
Nyamoana's Present -- Charms -- Manenko's pedestrian Powers -- An
Idol -- Balonda Arms -- Rain -- Hunger -- Palisades -- Dense Forests --
Artificial Beehives -- Mushrooms -- Villagers lend the Roofs of their
Houses -- Divination and Idols -- Manenko's Whims -- A night Alarm
-- Shinte's Messengers and Present -- The proper Way to approach a
Village -- A Merman -- Enter Shinte's Town: its Appearance -- Meet

two half-caste Slave-traders -- The Makololo scorn them -- The
Balonda real Negroes -- Grand Reception from Shinte -- His Kotla --
Ceremony of Introduction -- The Orators -- Women -- Musicians and
Musical Instruments -- A disagreeable Request -- Private Interviews
with Shinte -- Give him an Ox -- Fertility of Soil -- Manenko's new Hut
-- Conversation with Shinte -- Kolimbota's Proposal -- Balonda's
Punctiliousness -- Selling Children -- Kidnapping -- Shinte's Offer of a
Slave -- Magic Lantern -- Alarm of Women -- Delay -- Sambanza
returns intoxicated -- The last and greatest Proof of Shinte's Friendship.

Chapter 17.
Leave Shinte -- Manioc Gardens -- Mode of preparing the poisonous
kind -- Its general Use -- Presents of Food -- Punctiliousness of the
Balonda -- Their Idols and Superstition -- Dress of the Balonda --
Villages beyond Lonaje -- Cazembe -- Our Guides and the Makololo --
Night Rains -- Inquiries for English cotton Goods -- Intemese's Fiction
-- Visit from an old Man -- Theft -- Industry of our Guide -- Loss of
Pontoon -- Plains covered with Water -- Affection of the Balonda for
their Mothers -- A Night on an Island -- The Grass on the Plains --
Source of the Rivers -- Loan of the Roofs of Huts -- A Halt -- Fertility
of the Country through which the Lokalueje flows -- Omnivorous Fish
-- Natives' Mode of catching them -- The Village of a Half-brother of
Katema, his Speech and Present -- Our Guide's Perversity --
Mozenkwa's pleasant Home and Family -- Clear Water of the flooded
Rivers -- A Messenger from Katema -- Quendende's Village: his
Kindness -- Crop of Wool -- Meet People from the Town of Matiamvo
-- Fireside Talk -- Matiamvo's Character and Conduct -- Presentation at
Katema's Court: his Present, good Sense, and Appearance -- Interview
on the following Day -- Cattle -- A Feast and a Makololo Dance --
Arrest of a Fugitive -- Dignified old Courtier -- Katema's lax
Government -- Cold Wind from the North -- Canaries and other singing
Birds -- Spiders, their Nests and Webs -- Lake Dilolo -- Tradition --
Sagacity of Ants.

Chapter 18.

The Watershed between the northern and southern Rivers -- A deep
Valley -- Rustic Bridge -- Fountains on the Slopes of the Valleys --
Village of Kabinje -- Good Effects of the Belief in the Power of
Charms -- Demand for Gunpowder and English Calico -- The Kasai --
Vexatious Trick -- Want of Food -- No Game -- Katende's
unreasonable Demand -- A grave Offense -- Toll-bridge Keeper --
Greedy Guides -- Flooded Valleys -- Swim the Nyuana Loke -- Prompt
Kindness of my Men -- Makololo Remarks on the rich uncultivated
Valleys -- Difference in the Color of Africans -- Reach a Village of the
Chiboque -- The Head Man's impudent Message -- Surrounds our
Encampment with his Warriors -- The Pretense -- Their Demand --
Prospect of a Fight