shimbal

Updated: March 1, 2025

Old Shimbal, the linguist, had declared that a year would be required by the suspicious "bush-men" to palaver over the knotty question of a stranger coming only to "make mukanda," that is to see and describe the country. My wishes were expounded, and every possible promise of hammocks and porters, guides and interpreters, was made by the hosts.

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