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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When I Asked If He Remembered The Contract, He Replied
In The Affirmative:
His reasons for breaking it so soon were,
that he wished to sell his cloths, not mine, and for his cloths
he should want money, not an exchange.
But I gave him to comprehend
that as he was procuring pagazis for me, he was to pay my pagazis
with my cloths; that all the money I expected to pay him, should be
just such a sum I thought adequate for his trouble as my agent,
and that only on those terms should he act for me in this or any
other matter, and that the "Musungu" was not accustomed to eat
his words.
The preceding paragraph embodies many more words than are contained
in it. It embodies a dialogue of an hour, an angry altercation
of half-an-hour's duration, a vow taken on the part of Soor Hadji
Palloo, that if I did not take his cloths he should not touch my
business, many tears, entreaties, woeful penitence, and much else,
all of which were responded to with, "Do as I want you to do, or do
nothing. "Finally came relief, and a happy ending. Soor Hadji
Palloo went away with a bright face, taking with him the three
soldiers' posho (food), and honga (tribute) for the caravan. Well
for me that it ended so, and that subsequent quarrels of a similar
nature terminated so peaceably, otherwise I doubt whether my
departure from Bagamoyo would have happened so early as it did.
While I am on this theme, and as it really engrossed every moment
of my time at Bagamoyo, I may as well be more explicit regarding
Boor Hadji Palloo and his connection with my business.
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