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There was the greatest contrast possible between the conduct of his people and that of my faithful Makololo. We crossed the Loange, a deep but narrow stream, by a bridge. It becomes much larger, and contains hippopotami, lower down. It is the boundary of Londa on the west. We slept also on the banks of the Pezo, now flooded, and could not but admire their capabilities for easy irrigation.
"All at the bottom of the sea?" queried Red Gil, with gloating eyes fixed upon the smiling water. "Not one pezo left, not one little, little pearl?" I shook my head and heaved a prodigious sigh. "The treasure is gone," I said, "and the men with whom I took it are gone. I am a captain with neither ship nor crew. I take you, my friends, for a ship and crew without a captain.
May the poor of Mary hope for a few more crumbs from their Mistress's table?" "Not a pezo, I fear. The big white cow up there" and he pointed to the Horqueta "has been milked dry for this year." "Ah!" And he looked up at the magnificent snow peak. "Only good to cool wine with, eh? and as safe for the time being as Solomon's birds." "Solomon's birds? Explain your recondite allusion, my lord."
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