On Dr.
Livingstone approaching them, they ordered him to stop, and sit down in the sun, while they sat in the shade.

"No, no!" was the reply, "if you sit in the shade, so will we." They then rattled their shields with their clubs, a proceeding which usually inspires terror; but Moloka remarked, "It is not the first time we have heard shields rattled." And all sat down together.

They asked for a present, to show their chief that they had actually met strangers--something as evidence of having seen men who were not Arabs.

And they were requested in turn to take these strangers to the boat, or to their chief.

All the goods were in the boat, and to show that no present such as they wanted was in his pockets, Dr.Livingstone emptied them, turning out, among other things, a note-book: thinking it was a pistol they started up, and said, "Put that in again." The younger men then became boisterous, and demanded a goat.
That could not be spared, as they were the sole provisions.