lagers 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
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