We received far more food from Shinte's people than from himself.

Kapende, for instance, presented two large baskets of meal, three of manioc roots steeped and dried in the sun and ready to be converted into flour, three fowls, and seven eggs, with three smoke-dried fishes; and others gave with similar liberality.

I gave to the head men small bunches of my stock of beads, with an apology that we were now on our way to the market for these goods.

The present was always politely received.
We had an opportunity of observing that our guides had much more etiquette than any of the tribes farther south.

They gave us food, but would not partake of it when we had cooked it, nor would they eat their own food in our presence.