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.
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 in the Power of Charms -
Demand for Gunpowder and English Calico - The Kasai - Vexatious Trick -
Want of Food - No Game - Katende's unreasonable Demand -
A grave Offense - Toll-bridge Keeper - Greedy Guides -
Flooded Valleys - Swim the Nyuana Loke - Prompt Kindness of my Men -
Makololo Remarks on the rich uncultivated Valleys -
Difference in the Color of Africans - Reach a Village of the Chiboque -
The Head Man's impudent Message - Surrounds our Encampment
with his Warriors - The Pretense - Their Demand - Prospect of a Fight -
Way in which it was averted - Change our Path - Summer -
Fever - Beehives and the Honey-guide - Instinct of Trees -
Climbers - The Ox Sinbad - Absence of Thorns in the Forests -
Plant peculiar to a forsaken Garden - Bad Guides -
Insubordination suppressed - Beset by Enemies - A Robber Party -
More Troubles - Detained by Ionga Panza - His Village -
Annoyed by Bangala Traders - My Men discouraged -
Their Determination and Precaution.
