s square, he said, "These Mambari cheat us
by bringing little pieces only; but the next time you pass I shall send
men with you to trade for me in Loanda." When I explained the use made
of the slaves he sold, and that he was just destroying his own tribe by
selling his people, and enlarging that of the Mambari for the sake
of these small pieces of cloth, it seemed to him quite a new idea.
He entered into a long detail of his troubles with Masiko, who had
prevented him from cultivating that friendship with the Makololo which
I had inculcated, and had even plundered the messengers he had sent
with Kolimbota to the Barotse valley. Shinte was particularly anxious
to explain that Kolimbota had remained after my departure of his own
accord, and that he had engaged in the quarrels of the country without
being invited; that, in attempting to capture one of the children of a
Balobale man, who had offended the Balonda by taking honey from a hive
which did not belong to him, Kolimbota had got wounded by a shot in the
thigh, but that he had cured the wound, given him a wife, and sent a
present of cloth to Sekeletu, with a full account of the whole affair.
From the statement of Shinte we found that Kolimbota had learned, before
we left his town, that the way we intended to take was so dangerous that
it would be better for him to leave us to our fate; and, as he had taken
one of our canoes with him, it seemed evident that he did not expect us
to return. Shinte, however, sent a recommendation to his sister Nyamoana
to furnish as many canoes as we should need for our descent of the Leeba
and Leeambye.

As I had been desirous of introducing some of the fruit-trees of Angola,
both for my own sake and that of the inhabitants, we had carried a
pot containing a little plantation of orange, cashew-trees,
custard-apple-trees ('anona'), and a fig-tree, with coffee, aracas
('Araca pomifera'), and papaws ('Carica papaya'). Fearing that, if we
took them farther south at present, they might be killed by the cold, we
planted them out in an inclosure of one of Shinte's principal men, and,
at his request, promised to give Shinte a share when grown. They know
the value of fruits, but at present have none except wild ones. A wild
fruit we frequently met with in Londa is eatable, and, when boiled,
yields a large quantity of oil, which is much used in anointing
both head and body. He eagerly accepted some of the seeds of the
palm-oil-tree ('Elaeis Guinee