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"A war?" "Yes; well! then the king's counselors, who are in number seven Mademoiselle Stewart, Mademoiselle Wells, Mademoiselle Gwyn, Miss Orchay, Mademoiselle Zunga, Miss Davies, and the proud Countess of Castlemaine will represent to the king that war costs a great deal of money; that it is better to give balls and suppers at Hampton Court than to equip ships of the line at Portsmouth and Greenwich."
"Crash!" over went the tree, broken off short. "I'll soon be with you!" Tum Tum called again, for he still could not see his little friends. "Who's there?" he asked. Back through the jungle came the answer: "We're all here Whoo-ee, Gumble-umble, Thorny and Zunga!" These were the names of the elephants with whom Tum Tum played.
"Good!" trumpeted the tame elephant, whose name was Dunda. "My brother from the jungle is wise." So Tum Tum had no more chains put on his legs or back, and those that were on him, with the ropes, were taken off. "So we are not to try to break from the trap?" asked Whoo-ee. "No, for we will be well treated here," said Tum Tum, "and some of us may go to a circus." "What is a circus?" asked Zunga.
"Where?" asked Tum Tum, as he got up off his back, and blew some dust over himself to keep away the flies. "Oh, we're going down in the river," said Zunga. "It's so hot to-day, that a nice bath will cool us off. Come on." "I'd better ask my mother," said Tum Tum. "I didn't know you were going swimming, when you called for me to come and play with you. I'll go ask her."
Zunga was another girl elephant, and she was just called that name because her mother thought it sounded nice just as Tum Tum's mamma thought his name was the nicest one in the jungle. "I'm coming!" trumpeted Tum Tum, and then he came to another tree that stood in his path.
In Confirmation of this, Peter Martyr says that the Natives of Virginia and Guatimala celebrated the Memory of one Madoc as a great and ancient Hero, and hence it came to pass that Modern Travellers have found several Old British Words among the Inhabitants of North America; Matec Zunga and Mat Inga as being in use among the Guatimallians, in which there is a plain allusion to Madoc, and that with the D softened into T, according to the Welsh manner of pronunciation.
These craft are of two kinds, one shaped like a horse- trough, the other with a lean and snaky head. The "Wrangler" lost two of her men near Zunga chya Kampenzi, and the "Griffon" escaped by firing an Armstrong conical shell. They have frequently surprised and kept for ransom the white agents, whom "o negocio" deterred from reprisals.
Three are islets, the Zunga chya Gnombe of the bull formed by a narrow arm passing round them to the north: other natives called them Zunga chya Umbinda, but all seem to differ. These are the Gombac Islands of the chart, Hall Island being the easternmost, and the northern passage between the three horns and the main is called by us "Gombac Creek."
Almost due south of the Ilha do Boi is the Zunga chya Kampenzi, whence our word chimpanzee: in the hydrographic chart it is miswritten Zoonga Campendi, and in Tuckey's map, which contradicts his text, "Zoonga Casaquoisa." His "Zoonga Kampenzey," also named "Halcyon Island," appears to be the Draper's Island or the "Monkey Island" of Mr.
"Never mind, I don't care whether I'm first in the water or not," said Tum Tum. "I'll stay with you, Thorny, and Zunga." "Isn't Tum Tum nice?" whispered Zunga to Thorny, as they went along through the jungle. "Yes," said Thorny. Whoo-ee and Gumble-umble hurried on through the woods, and Whoo-ee was the first to splash into the water. "I beat!" he cried.
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