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Updated: June 11, 2025
But the bearers dissuaded us, declaring that they might be seized as "dash," unless the white men paid heavy "comey" like those who shipped black cargoes: they cannot shake off this old practice of claiming transit money. So we returned without a halt, covering some twelve of the roughest miles in two hours and a quarter. The morning of the 26th showed an ugly sight from the tall Kinsembo cliff.
The chief agent, who shall be nameless, was drunk arid disorderly: it is astonishing that men of business can trust their money to such irresponsible beings; he had come out to Blackland a teetotaller, and presently his condition became a living lecture upon geographical morality. The night gave us a fine study of the Kinsembo mosquito, a large brown dipter, celebrated even upon this coast.
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