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Updated: May 31, 2025
While they were speaking, I thought I detected a few words which sounded like Spanish; and listening more attentively, I found that the eldest of the two was speaking the lingua geral a corrupt Portuguese, mixed with Indian words, generally used throughout the whole length of the Amazon.
Presently the door was shut, and soon afterwards, through an imperfectly closed shutter on the only floor of the hut, we could perceive a streak of light reflected on the clearing in front, as if from a candle or lamp, that was stationary, "'I tink him dam rascal dat man, Massa Geral; at length ventured my companion.
He come along a lake like a dam tief in e night and I tell a Massa Geral and Massa Geral and me chase him all ober e water I not a sleep Massa Courcy;" pursued the old man with pique; "I nebber sleep, Massa Geral, nebber sleep." "The devil ye don't" observed De Courcy quaintly, "then the Lord deliver ME from gun boat service, I say." "Amen" responded Villiers.
He come along a lake like a dam tief in e night and I tell a Massa Geral and Massa Geral and me chase him all ober e water I not a sleep Massa Courcy;" pursued the old man with pique; "I nebber sleep, Massa Geral, nebber sleep." "The devil ye don't" observed De Courcy quaintly, "then the Lord deliver ME from gun boat service, I say." "Amen" responded Villiers.
"I 'member long time ago, and he sighed, "'when Sambo no bigger nor dat paddle, one berry much like him. But, Massa Geral, Missis always tell me nebber talk o' dat. "'A villain he is, I believe, Sambo, but let us advance cautiously and discover what he is about.
"All, Massa Geral, I see him all pack in e wagon, for e Bubbalo town all, except dis here I find in Miss Mungummery cabin under e pillow." As he spoke, the negro quitted his half recumbent position, and drew from his breast a small clasped pocket book, on a steel entablature adorning the cover of which, were the initials of the young lady just named.
"'How is this, Sambo? I asked in a low tone, as our canoe grated on the sand within a few paces of several others that lay where I expected to find but one 'are all these Desborough's?" "'No, Massa Geral 'less him teal him toders, Desborough only got one dis a public landin' place. "'Can you tell which is his? I inquired.
"Oh yes, Massa Geral, berry bad tongue Ellen, affir he lose he husband but, poor ting, he half mad and no sabby what he say. He time to start for he gun boat, Massa Geral." The part Sambo had sustained in this short dialogue was a forced one. He had answered almost mechanically, and not altogether without embarrassment, the few queries that were put to him.
They speak the lingua Geral, and sometimes Portuguese. The lingua Geral is the ancient Tupee language, considerably modified by the Jesuits, who taught it to all those under their control. The Amazonian Indians have generally fine figures, their chests especially being well developed; their skin is of a copper hue, of various shades, sometimes almost of a dark brown.
"Sambo poor black nigger obbicer berry white man, but him heart all ob a color. He no Frumpy Massa Geral no like an Irish bestibal. I wonder he no tick up for a broder, Massa Henry." His agitation here was extreme.
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