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Title: Life and scenes in Congo
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Probert, Herbert
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Publisher: Philadelphia, American Baptist Publication Society
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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ant the fish. The fish trader exhibits hisspecimens, but guardedly, and at a safe distance. Bring the fish, shout the Zanzibaris. 166 LIFE AND SCENES IN CONGO. ^ Show the brass rods/ ^• Here they are ; bring the fish closer. Hand themto us/ No; you hand the brass rods first, and then I willgive you the fish/ You give us the fish first, and we will then giveto you the brass rods. After much talk the price of a particular fish isfinally agreed upon; but how is the native to securethe brass rods? and how is the Zanzibari to makesure of the smoked fish ? The Zanzibari stretches toward the canoe; thenative pulls a trifle nearer; both are now excited. ^ Give me the fish. *^ Give me the ten brass rods.^ Give me the fish first. ^ Give me the ten brass rods first. Both men are now close to each other. The nativegrasps one end of the brass rods, while the Zanzibarieagerly seizes the tail end of the fish. Let go the fish. Let go the brass rods.^ Each man releases one, and grasps the other more
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LIFE AND SCENES IN CONGO. 167 teDaciously. The Zanzibar! rejoices in his fish, andthe Bolobo rejoices in his brass rods. The wholetransaction was malamu baa/^ or very good. Mr. B.J who was with me on the Henry Reed/^thus writes of a previous visit to this place, Bolobo. ^ Soon after our arrival we heard tremendous drum-ming and shouting in the town. On inquiry we foundsome one had died. This led us to desire a walk intothe towns, that we might get to know some of thehabits and customs of the people. We went, and sawa most disgusting, pitiful, and heart-sickening sight.After passing through several villages, we came to anopen space, where a great company of natives had as-sembled. The first thing to attract our attention was alarge circle of men, who had been drinking palm winetill they were nearly drunk, and then were joining ina kind of savage dance, accompanied by wild singingand shouting. A little farther on we saw a stilllarger circle of women, who were smoking pipes abouttwo feet

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