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Title: A journey to Ashango-Land, and further penetration into equatorial Africa
Year: 1874 (1870s)
Authors: Du Chaillu, Paul B. (Paul Belloni), 1835-1903 Owen, Richard, 1804-1892
Subjects: Natural history Ethnology
Publisher: New York, Harper & brothers
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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s. My men had been tired of waiting for me,and they told me that the Otando messengers, who hadreturned in such hot haste, were driven from Ashira-land by the threats of Arangui, who had seized oneof them, and made him prisoner. Thinking thatsomething was wrong, my men had resolved todespatch three of their number, well armed, to knowthe cause of my detention. I was now in a very unpleasant position. It wasno satisfaction to hear that Arangui had shownviolent anger on the discovery of the robbery, for Iwell knew the hypocrisy of the African character.I had been shamefully robbed, with the connivanceof the head men of Olenda, and in addition one ofMayolos messengers was detained a prisoner, with-out whose release I should never be allowed to enterthe Otando territory. I told my men to say nothingabout the robbery, my object being not to exciteany fears of punishment until I had obtained portersto enable me to get away from the place. It was a difficult matter to conceal my indignation,
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PRISONER IN NCHOGO. Chap. Vn. EOBBED BY THE ASHIEA PEOPLE. 137 especially when I saw that all the people of thevillage knew how I had heen plundered. I detectedthem often whispering secretly and casting furtiveglances towards my hut; but orders had been givento every Ashira man, woman, and child to keepthe matter secret from me, and not a single onebetrayed it. It is wonderful how even the youngchildren here are taught to be discreet. I wasobliged to act the hypocrite and pretend that Ibelieved Ondonga was ignorant of the arrival ofArangui. The day following the arrival of my men,Ondonga, Mintcho, and several others came to me andtold me they would endeavour to persuade Aranguito give up the man. Arangui was obstinate, andneither the arguments of his friends nor my threatscould prevail upon him. It appeared that two yearspreviously the Otandos had seized a relative of his,and still kept him in nchogo (the native stocks).Here was a sample of the complicated difficultiesa poor African t

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