He Became More Reconciled To Us, However, When He
Perceived We Fed Like Rational Beings; And, Calling His Family In
By Midnight, Presented Us With Pombe, And Made Many Apologies For
Having Allowed Us To Dine Without A Drop Of His Beer, For He Was
Very Glad To See Us.
Chapter XX
Madi
Junction of the Two Hemispheres - The First Contact with Persons
Acquainted with European Habits - Interruptions and Plots - The
Mysterious Mahamed - Native Revelries - The Plundering and Tyranny
of the Turks - The Rascalities of the Ivory Trade - Feeling for the
Nile - Taken to see a Mark left by a European - Buffalo, Eland, and
Rhinoceros Stalking - Meet Baker - Petherick's Arrival at
Gondokoro.
After receiving more pombe from the chief, and, strange to say,
hot water to wash with - for he did not know how else to show
hospitality better - we started again in the same straggling
manner as yesterday. In two hours we reached the palace of
Piejoko, a chief of some pretensions, and were summoned to stop
and drink pombe. In my haste to meet Petherick's expedition, I
would listen to nothing, but pushed rapidly on, despite all
entreaties to stop, both from the chief and from my porters, who,
I saw clearly, wished to do me out of another day.
Half of my men, however, did stop there, but with the other half
Grant and I went on; and, as the sun was setting, we came in
sight of what we thought was Petherick's outpost, N. lat. 3§ 10'
33", and E. long.
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