They are not allowed to speak; though on one occasion a man, feeling his wrist held too tightly, said, "Hold me gently, can't you?
you will soon be led out in the same way yourselves." Mpepe's men fled to the Barotse, and, it being unadvisable for us to go thither during the commotion which followed on Mpepe's death, we returned to Linyanti.
The foregoing may be considered as a characteristic specimen of their mode of dealing with grave political offenses.

In common cases there is a greater show of deliberation.

The complainant asks the man against whom he means to lodge his complaint to come with him to the chief.

This is never refused.

When both are in the kotla, the complainant stands up and states the whole case before the chief and the people usually assembled there.