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Afterwards, when the Doctor and his pets were going on alone, Polynesia said, "We must tread softly and talk low as we go through the land of the Jolliginki. If the King should hear us, he will send his soldiers to catch us again; for I am sure he is still very angry over the trick I played on him."
"Would it not be advisable," suggested Bumpo, "while the varlet is still sleepy, to strike him on the head with some heavy object and push him through a port-hole into the sea?" "No. We'd get into trouble," said Polynesia. "We're not in Jolliginki now, you know worse luck! Besides, there never was a port-hole big enough to push that man through. Bring him upstairs to the Doctor."
Do not speak a word of this to any one. And when I have done as you ask, you must let me and all my animals out of prison. Promise by the crown of Jolliginki!" So the Prince promised and went away to get a ship ready at the seashore. When he came back and said that it was done, the Doctor asked Dab-Dab to bring a basin.
"You may not travel through my lands," said the King. "Many years ago a white man came to these shores; and I was very kind to him. But after he had dug holes in the ground to get the gold, and killed all the elephants to get their ivory tusks, he went away secretly in his ship without so much as saying 'Thank you. Never again shall a white man travel through the lands of Jolliginki."
But the Doctor asked him not to make so much noise about it; and when he had closed his medicine-bag in a hurry he told him to open the prison-door. Bumpo begged that he might keep the looking-glass, as it was the only one in the Kingdom of Jolliginki, and he wanted to look at himself all day long. But the Doctor said he needed it to shave with.
If you don't let me and my animals travel through your kingdom, I will make you and all your people sick like the monkeys. For I can make people well: and I can make people ill just by raising my little finger. Send your soldiers at once to open the dungeon door, or you shall have mumps before the morning sun has risen on the hills of Jolliginki."
But the only thing he could find was an old watch with the hands broken and the back dented in; and we decided this would not bring us in enough money to buy much more than a pound of tea. Bumpo suggested that he sing comic songs in the streets which he had learned in Jolliginki. But the Doctor said he did not think that the islanders would care for African music.
And soon a black man came down out of the woods and asked them what they were doing there. "My name is John Dolittle M. D.," said the Doctor. "I have been asked to come to Africa to cure the monkeys who are sick." "You must all come before the King," said the black man. "What king?" asked the Doctor, who didn't want to waste any time. "The King of the Jolliginki," the man answered.
So we crossed the street again and slipped into the bed-maker's shop while the Doctor was still busy with his boots. "Don Enrique," said Bumpo, "allow me to introduce myself. I am the Crown Prince of Jolliginki. Would you care to have a small bet with me on to-morrow's bullfight?" Don Enrique bowed. "Why certainly," he said, "I shall be delighted. But I must warn you that you are bound to lose.
Gub-Gub, with his short legs, soon got tired; and the Doctor had to carry him which made it pretty hard when they had the trunk and the hand-bag with them as well. The King of the Jolliginki thought it would be easy for his army to find them, because the Doctor was in a strange land and would not know his way.
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