nessudikira

Updated: May 25, 2025

I made him au-fait as to my intentions, produced, as "mata-bicho," a bottle of gin, and sent a dash of costa-fina, to which a few yards of satin-stripe were thrown in. The gin was drunk with the usual greed, and the presents were received with the normal objections. "Why should not I, a king like Nessudikira, receive a 'dash' equal to his?" "He is my host, I pay him for bed and board!"

Sir Richard Francis Burton - Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2

Nessudikira, whose eyes by way of grandeur never wandered from the floor, shook hands with us without rising from his chair, somewhat after the fashion of certain women in civilized society, who would be dignified, and who are not.

Sir Richard Francis Burton - Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2

Nessudikira was a "blanc-bec," aged twenty or twenty-one, who till lately had been a trading lad at Boma now he must not look upon the sea.

Sir Richard Francis Burton - Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2