He replied through a spokesman; then all the company joined in the response by clapping of hands too.
After the more serious business was over, I asked if he had ever seen a white man before.

He replied, "Never; you are the very first I have seen with a white skin and straight hair; your clothing, too, is different from any we have ever seen." They had been visited by native Portuguese and Mambari only.
On learning from some of the people that "Shinte's mouth was bitter for want of tasting ox-flesh," I presented him with an ox, to his great delight; and, as his country is so well adapted for cattle, I advised him to begin a trade in cows with the Makololo.

He was pleased with the idea, and when we returned from Loanda, we found that he had profited by the hint, for he had got three, and one of them justified my opinion of the country, for it was more like a prize heifer for fatness than any we had seen in Africa.

He soon afterward sent us a basket of green maize boiled, another of manioc-meal, and a small fowl.

The maize shows by its size the fertility of the black soil of all the valleys here, and so does the manioc, though no manure is ever applied.