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Updated: May 26, 2025
Simoun, who was present, having already dined, was in the sala talking with some merchants, who were complaining of business conditions: everything was going wrong, trade was paralyzed, the European exchanges were exorbitantly high. They sought information from the jeweler or insinuated to him a few ideas, with the hope that these would be communicated to the Captain-General.
Not, indeed, that the formless regret has been connected with any illusions as to the mysterious quality of the dinner that I have thus foregone. I have been well enough aware that the only actual opportunity thus evaded has been most probably that of an unusually bad dinner, exorbitantly paid for.
It was not much shelled in those days, though afterward years afterward it was badly damaged by long-range guns, so that its people fled, at last, after living so long on the edge of war. Its people were friendly to our men, and did not raise their prices exorbitantly.
In view of the circumstances, and for their own good, we refused. Another man once insisted on purchasing a cake of violet-scented soap for a rupee. Their chief idea of a wild time in Nairobi, after return from a long safari, is to SIT IN A CHAIR and drink tea. For this they pay exorbitantly at the Somali so-called "hotels." It is a strange sight.
We cheered as she brought it in. Tea, bully beef, and our last biscuits comprised our dinner, which we ate in big gulps, after which we sang "Three blind mice" as a digestive. The half-open door was full of peering faces, so somewhat encouraged we gave them a selection of rounds. We left next morning early in a heavy downpour, after being exorbitantly charged, glad to leave Jabooka for ever.
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