Chapter 30

Barimo for Success--Native Mode of Expression--Working of Game-laws--A Feast--Laughing Hyaenas--Numerous Insects-- Curious Notes of Birds of Song--Caterpillars--Butterflies-- Silica--The Fruit Makoronga and Elephants--Rhinoceros Adventure--Korwe Bird--Its Nest--A real Confinement--Honey and Beeswax--Superstitious Reverence for the Lion--Slow Traveling-- Grapes--The Ue--Monina's Village--Native Names--Government of the Banyai--Electing a Chief--Youths instructed in "Bonyai"-- Suspected of Falsehood--War-dance--Insanity and Disappearance of Monahin--Fruitless Search--Monina's Sympathy--The Sand- river Tangwe--The Ordeal Muavi: its Victims--An unreasonable Man--"Woman's Rights"--Presents--Temperance--A winding Course to shun Villages--Banyai Complexion and Hair--Mushrooms--The Tubers, Mokuri--The Tree Shekabakadzi--Face of the Country-- Pot-holes--Pursued by a Party of Natives--Unpleasant Threat-- Aroused by a Company of Soldiers--A civilized Breakfast-- Arrival at Tete.