How I Found Livingstone Travels, Adventures And Discoveries In Central Africa Including Four Months Residence With Dr. Livingstone By Sir Henry M. Stanley
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His Son, A Youth Of About Fifteen, Attentive To
The Infirmities Of His Father, Hastened With Filial Duty To Remind
Him of his condition, upon which, with an idiotic titter at the
incident, he resumed his scanty apparel and sat
Down to wonder and
gibber out his admiration at the tent and the strange things which
formed the Musungu's personal baggage and furniture. After gazing
in stupid wonder at the table, on which was placed some crockery
and the few books I carried with me; at the slung hammock, which
he believed was suspended by some magical contrivance; at the
portmanteaus which contained my stock of clothes, he ejaculated,
"Hi-le! the Musungu is a great sultan, who has come from his
country to see Ugogo." He then noticed me, and was again wonder-
struck at my pale complexion and straight hair, and the question
now propounded was, "How on earth was I white when the sun had
burned his people's skins into blackness?" Whereupon he was
shown my cork topee, which he tried on his woolly head, much
to his own and to our amusement. The guns were next shown to
him; the wonderful repeating rifle of the Winchester Company,
which was fired thirteen times in rapid succession to demonstrate
its remarkable murderous powers. If he was astonished before
he was a thousand times more so now, and expressed his belief
that the Wagogo could not stand before the Musungu in battle,
for wherever a Mgogo was seen such a gun would surely kill him.
Then the other firearms were brought forth, each with its
peculiar mechanism explained, until, in, a burst of enthusiasm
at my riches and power, he said he would send me a sheep or goat,
and that he would be my brother.
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