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I travelled in Lunda, when the sponges were all supersaturated. The grassy sward was so lifted up that it was separated into patches or tufts, and if the foot missed the row of tufts of this wiry grass which formed the native path, down one plumped up to the thigh in slush.
"He will let you read my letter, and you will see by it that I expect he will have a finger in the pie not to take part in the war, but just to look on and kind of see fair-play, you know, and umpire us when we fall out. He is a nice fellow, people say." "There is no one like him," said Harry, with that hearty enthusiasm which all the lads of Lunda displayed when their chief was mentioned.
In the country of Lunda lives the famous Cazembe, who was first made known to Europeans by Dr. Lacerda, the Portuguese traveller. Cazembe is a most intelligent prince; he is a tall, stalwart man, who wears a peculiar kind of dress, made of crimson print, in the form of a prodigious kilt. In this state dress, King Cazembe received Dr. Livingstone, surrounded by his chiefs and body-guards.
If you had priced him against a bit of lichen torn from the Head of Calloster, which might have cost us our lives to procure, that would have been more like the thing. But beach stones in salt water, bah!" "Tom, lad!" said Fred gently, "if you were living in a city far from Lunda as I have been you would put a higher price on pebbles wet with the sea that girdles the old isle.
"They've come in force!" our Viking exclaimed. "Five of them, no less! and one's a man!" "Why, one is Gloy!" cried Gibbie; and in more subdued tones Lowrie added "And the man is Mr. Garson, the young Laird o' Lunda!" "That's jolly!"
The Lunda boys were decidedly in favour of Yaspard's scheme was there ever a boy who would have objected to any such prank? They saw no harm in it whatever, only Harry said "We must consult Fred Garson; we never go in for any big thing without consulting Fred." "Of course," Yaspard answered cheerfully.
It was not till tea had been served, and the day was far spent, that Fred asked the loan of a boat, and his young friend Yaspard's crew, to take him back to Lunda. Permission was given, of course; and when our Viking-boy went off to get the Osprey ready Signy went too, and Aunt Osla disappeared to indite a letter to her old friend, Fred's mother.
But his travels and tedious labours in Lunda and the adjacent countries have established beyond doubt first, that the Chambezi is a totally distinct river from the Zambezi of the Portuguese; and, secondly, that the Chambezi, starting from about latitude 11 degrees south, is no other than the most southerly feeder of the great Nile; thus giving that famous river a length of over 2,000 miles of direct latitude; making it, second to the Mississippi, the longest river in the world.
It is difficult to get at the truth, for Mohamad or Mpamari never tells the whole truth. He went to fight Nsama with Muonga, and was wounded in the foot and routed, and is now glad to get out of Lunda back to Ujiji. 11th May, 1868.
No doubt the Mitchells will have some plan in head for making capital out of Gloy's presence in Boden." They chatted in the most friendly manner till they reached Lunda, when they parted with mutual regret and many assurances that they should meet again at no very distant time. The wind was even more favourable for the voyage back, and Yaspard's little boat went swiftly and easily along.
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