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| Keywords: Reception of the Mission by Shinté.jpg en Reception of the Mission by Shinté 17th Tuesday ”We were honoured with a grand reception by Shinte about eleven o ™clock The kotla or place of audience was about a hundred yards square and two graceful specimens of a species of banian stood near one end; under one of these sat Shinte on a sort of throne covered with a leopard ™s skin One of the trees being unoccupied I retreated to it for the sake of the shade We were now about forty yards from the chief and could see the whole ceremony The different sections of the tribe came forward in the same way that we did the head man of each making obeisance with ashes which he carried with him for the purpose; then came the soldiers all armed to the teeth running and shouting towards us with their swords drawn and their faces screwed up so as to appear as savage as possible for the purpose When all had come and were seated then began the curious capering usually seen in pichos A man starts up and imitates the most approved attitudes observed in actual fight This over Sambanza and the spokesman of Nyamoana stalked backwards and forwards in front of Shinte and gave forth in a loud voice all they had been able to learn either from myself or other people the wish to open the country to trade; the Bible as a word from heaven; the white man ™s desire for the tribes to live in peace Behind Shinte sat about a hundred women clothed in their best which happened to be a profusion of red baize A party of musicians consisting of three drummers and four performers on the piano marimba went round the kotla several times regaling us with their music The drums are neatly carved from the trunk of a tree When nine speakers had concluded their orations Shinte stood up and so did all the people He had maintained true African dignity all the while but my people remarked that he scarcely ever took his eyes off me for a moment pp 291-94 1857 http //libweb5 princeton edu/visual_materials/maps/websites/africa/livingstone/livingstone-images html David Livingstone Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa Including a Sketch of Sixteen Years ™ Residence in the Interior of Africa and a Journey from the Cape of Good Hope to Loanda on the West Coast Thence Across the Continent Down the River Zambesi to the Eastern Ocean London John Murray 1857 David Livingstone other versions PD-Art Uploaded with UploadWizard Christian mission in art David Livingstone | ||||
