Increasing Beauty of the Country--Mode of spending the Day--The People and the Falls of Gonye--A Makololo Foray-- A second prevented, and Captives delivered up--Politeness and Liberality of the People--The Rains--Present of Oxen--The fugitive Barotse--Sekobinyane's Misgovernment--Bee-eaters and other Birds--Fresh-water Sponges--Current--Death from a Lion's Bite at Libonta--Continued Kindness--Arrangements for spending the Night during the Journey--Cooking and Washing--Abundance of animal Life--Different Species of Birds--Water-fowl-- Egyptian Geese--Alligators--Narrow Escape of one of my Men-- Superstitious Feelings respecting the Alligator--Large Game-- The most vulnerable Spot--Gun Medicine--A Sunday--Birds of Song--Depravity; its Treatment--Wild Fruits--Green Pigeons-- Shoals of Fish--Hippopotami.
Chapter 15.

Message to Masiko, the Barotse Chief, regarding 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.
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.
Chapter 19.