He Then Offered Me His Dyabir, As Well As Anything Else
That I Wanted That Lay Within His Power To Give.
Suffice it to
say, I had, through Baker's generosity, at that very moment
enough and to spare; but at
His urgent request I took a few more
yards of cloth for my men, and some cooking fat; and, though I
offered to pay for it, he declined to accept any return at my
hands.
Though I naturally felt much annoyed at Petherick - for I had
hurried away from Uganda, and separated from Grant at Kari,
solely to keep faith with him - I did not wish to break
friendship, but dined and conversed with him, when it transpired
that his Vakil, or agent, who went south from the N'yambara
station, came amongst the N'yam N'yam, and heard from them that a
large river, four days' journey more to the southward, was
flowing from east to west, beyond which lived a tribe of "women,"
who, when they wanted to marry, mingled with them in the stream
and returned; and then, again, beyond this tribe of women there
lived another tribe of women and dogs. Now, this may all seem a
very strange story to those who do not know the negro's and
Arab's modes of expression; but to me it at once came very
natural, and, according to my view, could be interpreted thus: -
The river, running from east to west, according to the native
mode of expressing direction, could be nothing but the Little
Luta Nzige running the opposite way, according to fact and our
mode of expression.
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