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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Kiala had been visited
by a couple of chiefs from his father; and the chiefs being told
that a white man was at the ferry, put in a claim for a couple of
guns and a keg of gunpowder.
But here my patience was exhausted,
and I declared that they should have to take them by force, for I
would never consent to be robbed and despoiled after any such
fashion.
Until 11 P.M., Bombay and Asmani were negotiating about this extra
demand, arguing, quarreling, threatening, until Bombay declared
they would talk him mad if it lasted much longer. I told Bombay
to take two cloths, one for each chief, and, if they did not
consider it enough, then I should fight. The present was taken,
and the negotiations were terminated at midnight.
November 2nd. - Ihata Island, one and a half hour west of Kiala's.
We arrived before the Island of Ihata, on the left bank of the
Malagarazi, at 5 p.m.; the morning having been wasted in puerile
talk with the owner of the canoes at the ferry. The final demand
for ferriage across was eight yards of cloth and four fundo* of
sami-sami, or red beads; which was at once paid. Four men, with
their loads, were permitted to cross in the small, unshapely, and
cranky canoes. When the boatmen had discharged their canoes of
their passengers and cargoes, they were ordered to halt on the
other side, and, to my astonishment, another demand was made.
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