ve a widely-extended range of vision, and a man
armed is carefully shunned. From the frequency with which I have been
allowed to approach nearer without than with a gun, I believe they know
the difference between safety and danger in the two cases. But here,
where they are killed by the arrows of the Balonda, they select for
safety the densest forest, where the arrow can not be easily shot.
The variation in the selection of standing-spots during the day may,
however, be owing partly to the greater heat of the sun, for here it
is particularly sharp and penetrating. However accounted for, the wild
animals here do select the forests by day, while those farther south
generally shun these covers, and, on several occasions, I have observed
there was no sunshine to cause them to seek for shade.

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.

11TH OF JANUARY, 1854. On starting this morning, Samoana (or rather
Nyamoana, for the ladies are the chiefs here) presented a string of
beads, and a shell highly valued among them, as an atonement for having
assisted Manenko, as they thought, to vex me the day before. They seemed
anxious to avert any evil which might arise from my displeasure; but
having replied that I never kept my anger up all night, they were much
pleased to see me satisfied. We had to cross, in a canoe, a stream which
flows past the village of Nyamoana. Manenko's doctor waved some charms
over her, and she took some in her hand and on her body before she
ventured upon the water. One of my men spoke rather loudly when n