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"It was impossible to help laughing, but I was truly thankful that we had so far gained our point as to be allowed to pass without shedding blood." He now struck north to avoid the Chiboque, and made for the Portuguese settlement of Cassange through dense forest and constant wet.
The present would have been a good opportunity for me to have visited that chief, and I felt strongly inclined to do so, as he had expressed dissatisfaction respecting my treatment by the Chiboque, and even threatened to punish them. As it would be improper to force my men to go thither, I resolved to wait and see whether the proposition might not emanate from themselves.
I had given one to the Chiboque, and must give him the same, together with a gun, gunpowder, and a black robe, like that he had seen spread out to dry the day before; that, if I refused an ox, I must give one of my men, and a book by which he might see the state of Matiamvo's heart toward him, and which would forewarn him, should Matiamvo ever resolve to cut off his head."
Having reached the latitude of Loanda, Dr Livingstone now directed his course to the westward. On the 4th of March he reached the outskirts of the territory of the Chiboque.
The Chiboque at last put the matter before us in this way: "You come among us in a new way, and say you are quite friendly: how can we know it unless you give us some of your food, and you take some of ours? If you give us an ox, we will give you whatever you may wish, and then we shall be friends."
My men now entreated me to give something; and after asking the chief if he really thought the affair of the spitting a matter of guilt, and receiving an answer in the affirmative, I gave him one of my shirts. The young Chiboque were dissatisfied, and began shouting and brandishing their swords for a greater fine.
The worrying, of which I give only a slight sketch, had considerable influence on my own mind, and more especially as it was impossible to make any allowance for the Bashinje, such as I was willing to award to the Chiboque. They saw that we had nothing to give, nor would they be benefited in the least by enforcing the impudent order to return whence we had come.
Every night now they had to build a stockade, and by day to march in a compact body, knowing the forest to be full of enemies dogging their path, for now they had nothing to give as presents, the men having even divested themselves of all their copper ornaments to appease the Chiboque harpies.
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.
One of the oxen we offered to the Chiboque had been rejected because he had lost part of his tail, as they thought that it had been cut off and witchcraft medicine inserted; and some mirth was excited by my proposing to raise a similar objection to all the oxen we still had in our possession.
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