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Updated: June 18, 2025
But then two years ago, her mother said it was, almost to a day when last he wore the bunda then he had received the letter from the postman and evidently thrust it into his pocket, meaning to read it at some more convenient time.
Mandalay is at the upper end of this lake-like part of the Irrawaddy; it lies back and behind the river bank or bunda, so it is not visible from the river. Our steamer pulls up against a flat that lies against the sandy shore, exposed, at this time of year, by the lowness of the river. There are no wharfs as I had expected, only two or three floating sheds, and two or three steamers like our own.
"My wife brought a nice warm bunda to wrap you in; it is in the carriage out yonder," returned the ex-robber. "One word first: you are acquainted with the man who made the metal screen in my apartments. Could you see him?" "He is in Count Vavel's service, and I can see him when I return to the camp." "Then tell him to come to the Nameless Castle at once.
They were provokingly uneven, but with the aid of a sheepskin bunda, and our carpet-bags for pillows, we contrived something upon which to rest our tired limbs. I should observe we had partially dried ourselves by a miserable fire fed with wet wood; in fact, everything was wet our plaids were soaked, and were useless as coverlets.
Gerzson wrapped his bunda round his shoulders and went towards the bee-house, but the priest returned to his chamber, blew out the light, lay down fully dressed on his bed, took up his rosary and fell a-praying like one who does not expect to see the dawn of another day. He knew his man; he knew what was coming.
A lot of these fellows, wrapped in their cloaks, were sleeping huddled together at the side of the street. I found afterwards that this is a common practice with these people. The wonderful bunda is a cloak by day and a house by night.
It is ruled by the daughter of the infamous Kisalungo, notorious as a robber and kidnapper, another Theodore on a small scale. Before long Stanley was attacked with fever, which greatly prostrated his strength, though he quickly recovered by taking strong dozes of quinine. The most painful event which occurred was the flight of Bunda Selim, who had been punished for pilfering rations.
It is here they're knocked up, going continually and most patiently to the last moment of their strength, when they expire at once. Teenabunda or "Well of Bunda," is a well of sweet delicious water. It is some thirty or forty feet deep. There is nothing to mark the site of the well from the surrounding plain, nor palm tree, nor shrub, nor herbage of any kind.
Gerzson felt that if he looked much longer, he would become moonstruck himself. Slowly divesting himself of his bunda, and after knocking the burning ashes out of his pipe, he noiselessly quitted the bee-house, traversed the garden and sprang over the fence at a single bound.
Alone on these dun-coloured roads, in the fall of the long winter evening, a peasant's sledge, without bells, might have been seen gliding along through that featureless, semi-obscure wilderness towards Kárpáthy Castle. In the rear of the sledge sat a man wrapped in a simple mantle; in front, a peasant, in a sheepskin bunda, was driving the two lean horses.
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