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.