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On the following morning, after my arrival at Kisoona, M’Gambi appeared, beseeching me to go and visit the king. I replied that “I was hungry and weak from want of food, and that I wanted to see meat, and not the man who had starved me.” In the afternoon a beautiful cow appeared with her young calf, also a fat sheep and two pots of plantain cider, as a present from Kamrasi. That evening we revelled in milk, a luxury that we had not tasted for some months. The cow gave such a quantity that we looked forward to the establishment of a dairy, and already contemplated cheese-making. I sent the king a present of a pound of powder in canister, a box of caps, and a variety of trifles, explaining that I was quite out of stores and presents, as I had been kept so long in his country that I was reduced to beggary, as I had expected to return to my own country long before this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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