jumbila

Updated: May 1, 2025

I very naturally asked her if she had seen this being. She said no, but knew him as well as if she had; for old Jumbila, a negress, had so often talked to her about him, that her idea of him was as familiar to her as the presence of her father. "You have much to unlearn, my sweet one," thought I, "and I shall be but too happy to be your preceptor."

Edward Howard - Rattlin the Reefer