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"The next is Sir Mungo Barebones, the representative of a very ancient family in the north; his affairs are very much deranged, but he is a gentleman of great probity and learning, and at present engaged in a very grand scheme, which, if he can bring it to bear, will render him famous to all posterity; no less than the conversion of the Jews and the Gentiles.
"Oh, I'm no' that wee!" said Mungo. "If ye wad jist bide cool " "'Cool' quo' he! Man! I'm up to the neck in fire. Where is she?" "Whaur ony decent lass should be at this 'oor o' the nicht in her naked bed." "Say that again, you foul-mouthed dog o' Fife, and I'll gralloch you like a deer!" cried the Chamberlain, his face tingling.
Among its first emissaries was Mungo Park, who afterwards was employed by the British government, and died in the course of his second expedition in 1805-6.
"It is absurd, perhaps," said Count Victor, still very softly, and watching his host as closely as he might, "but Mungo " "Pshaw! a good lowland heart! For all his clowning, Count, you might trust him with your life." "The other servant then the woman?" Doom looked a trifle uneasy. "Hush!" said he, with half a glance behind him to the door. "Not so loud.
He still kept looking at me, as if in doubt. "Well," said he, at last, "your tongue is bold; but I am no unfriend to plainness. If ye had asked me the way to the door of James Stewart on any other day but this, I would have set ye right and bidden ye God-speed. But to-day eh, Mungo?" And he turned again to look at the lawyer.
Mungo is making a big tornado, and is stirring and simmering it softly so as to make it strong. I only hope he will not overdo it, as he does six times in seven, and make it too heavy to get out on to the Atlantic, where all tornadoes ought to go. If he does the thing will go and burst on us in this forest to-night.
I received from the captain of the privateer every mark of respect and kindness that his means would allow. Much of this I owed to Green, and the black man Mungo, both of whom had represented my conduct in saving the life of him who had endangered mine and that of all my party.
This manner of taking it was of great benefit to us, and allayed our thirst much better than if we had gulped it of at once. This means was not resorted to by the sufferers on the fatal raft. Mungo Park when much afflicted by thirst in the Desert, found great relief by keeping a pebble in his mouth. Three days passed in inexpressible anguish.
"You are hereby empowered to draw for any sum that you may be in want of, not exceeding L5000. upon the Lords of His Majesty's Treasury, or upon such mercantile banking-house in London as you may fix upon. "I am, &c. "To Mungo Park, Esq. &c. &c. &c." The preparations for the expedition being now entirely completed, Park, together with Mr. Anderson and Mr.
"Not a house to be seen! not a sign of man! the untrodden wilderness!" cried Mr Sudberry. "Robinson Crusoe! Mungo Park! Pooh!" shouted George. "Hooray!" yelled Jacky. The whole party laughed again, and down the slope they went, at such a pace that it was a miracle they did not terminate their career in the lake with the poetic name. At this point everyone was suddenly "seized."
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