ied with a meal
like that which they enjoy so often at home, amused themselves by an
uproarious dance. Katema sent to ask what I had given them to produce so
much excitement. Intemese replied it was their custom, and they meant no
harm. The companion of the ox we slaughtered refused food for two days,
and went lowing about for him continually. He seemed inconsolable for
his loss, and tried again and again to escape back to the Makololo
country. My men remarked, "He thinks they will kill me as well as my
friend." Katema thought it the result of art, and had fears of my skill
in medicine, and of course witchcraft. He refused to see the magic
lantern.

One of the affairs which had been intrusted by Shinte to Intemese
was the rescue of a wife who had eloped with a young man belonging to
Katema. As this was the only case I have met with in the interior in
which a fugitive was sent back to a chief against his own will, I am
anxious to mention it. On Intemese claiming her as his master's wife,
she protested loudly against it, saying "she knew she was not going back
to be a wife again; she was going back to be sold to the Mambari." My
men formed many friendships with the people of Katema, and some of the
poorer classes said in confidence, "We wish our children could go back
with you to the Makololo country; here we are all in danger of being
sold." My men were of opinion that it was only the want of knowledge of
the southern country which prevented an exodus of all the lower portions
of Londa population thither.

It is remarkable how little people living in a flat forest country like
this know of distant tribes. An old man, who said he had been born about
the same time as the late Matiamvo, and had been his constant companion
through life, visited us; and as I was sitting on some grass in front
of the little gipsy tent mending my camp stool, I invited him to take
a seat on the grass beside me. This was peremptorily refused: "he had
never sat on the ground during the late chief's reign, and he was not
going to degrade himself now." One of my men handed him a log of wood
taken from the fire, and helped him out of the difficulty. When I
offered him some cooked meat on a plate, he would not touch that either,
but would take it home. So I humored him by sending a servant to bear a
few ounces of meat to the town behind him. He mentioned the Lolo (Lulua)
as the branch of the Leeambye which flows southward or S.S.E.; but the
people o