. Missionary travels and researches in South Africa : including a sketch of sixteen years' residence in the interior of Africa, and a journey from the Cape of Good Hope to Loanda, on the west coast, thence across the continent, down the river Zambesi, to the eastern ocean. dress for liim like the one I wore, sothat he might appear as a white man when any stranger visitedhim. One of the councillors, imagining that he ought to secondthis by begging, Katema checked him by saying, Whateverstrangers give, be it little or much, I always receive it with thank-fulness, and never trouble them for more.
. Missionary travels and researches in South Africa : including a sketch of sixteen years' residence in the interior of Africa, and a journey from the Cape of Good Hope to Loanda, on the west coast, thence across the continent, down the river Zambesi, to the eastern ocean. dress for liim like the one I wore, sothat he might appear as a white man when any stranger visitedhim. One of the councillors, imagining that he ought to secondthis by begging, Katema checked him by saying, Whateverstrangers give, be it little or much, I always receive it with thank-fulness, and never trouble them for more. On departing, hemounted on the shoulders of his spokesman, as the most dignifiedmode of retiring. The spokesman being a slender man, and theclrief six feet high, and stout in proportion, there would have been Chap. XXIV. KATEMAS HERD — JACKDAWS. 481 a breakdown, had he not been accustomed to it. We were verymuch pleased with Katema; and next day he presented us witha cow, that we might enjoy the abundant supplies of meal he hadgiven with good animal food. He then departed for the hunting-ground, after assuring me that the town and everything in it weremine, and that his factotum, Shakatwala, would remain and attendto every want, and also conduct us to the W4. Of^ On attempting to slaughter the cow Katema had given, wefound the herd as wild as buffaloes; and one of my men havingonly wounded it, they fled many miles into the forest, and werewith great difficulty brought back. Even the herdsman was afraidto go near them. The majority of them were white, and theywere all beautiful animals. After hunting it for two days, it wasdespatched at last by another ball. Here we saw a flock of jack-daws, a rare sight in Londa, busy with the grubs in the valley >which are eaten by the people too. 2 i 482 PROJECT FOR A MAKOLOLO VILLAGE. Chap. XXIV. Leaving Katemas town on the 19th, and proceeding four milesto the eastward, we forded the southern branch of Lake found it
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