lullabooing

Updated: June 7, 2025

As the caravan, according to its usual march of single file, moved along the serpentine footpath in peristaltic motion, firing muskets and singing "the return," the Unyanyembe villagers, men, women, and children, came running out and flocking on it, piercing the air with loud shrill noises, accompanied with the lullabooing of these fairs which, once heard, can never be mistaken.

John Hanning Speke - What Led to the Discovery of the Source of the Nile