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Title: Livingstone's and Stanley's travels in Africa also, the adventures of Mungo Parke, Clapperton, DuChaillu, Baker and other famous explorers, in the land of the palm and the gorilla
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Jones, Charles H
Subjects: Missions
Publisher: New York : Hurst
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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roy in the southernsections of his dominions,and t<% whom the Akkawere tributary, was just re-turning to the court froma successful campaignagainst the black MomvooAccompanied by a largeband of soldiers, amongstwhom was included a corpsof Pygmies, he was convey-ing the bulk of the bootyto his royal master. Ithappened on the day inquestion that I had beenmaking a long excursionwith my Niam-Niam serv-ants, and had heard nothingof Mummerys arrival. To-ward sunset I was passingjfc along the extensive villageon my return to my quar-ters, when, just as I reachedthe wide, open space infront of the royal halls, I found myself surrounded by what Iconjectured must be a crowd of impudent boys, who receivedme with a sort of bravado fight. They pointed their arrowstowards me, and behaved generally in a manner at which Icould not help feeling somewhat irritated, as it betokened un-warrantable liberty and intentional disrespect. My misappre-hension was soon corrected by the Niam-Niam people about
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BOMBY THE AKKA. SCHWEINFURTH. 455 me. They are Tikkitikki, * said they; c you imagine thatthey are boys, but in truth they are men; nay, men that canfight. At this moment a seasonable greeting from Mummerydrew me off from any apprehension on my part, and fromany further contemplation of the remarkable spectacle beforenae. In my own mind I resolved that I would, minutelyinspect the camp of the new-comers on the following morning;but I had reckoned without my host: before dawn Mummeryand his contingent of Pygmies had taken their departure, andthus, 4 Like the baseless fabric of a vision, , this people, so near and yet so unattainable, had vanished oncemore into the dim obscurity of the innermost continent. Schweinfurth came into possession of one of these Akka, ina rather curious way. He had brought with him two dogs ofthe common Bongo breed, but so much larger than the meanlittle curs of the Monbuttoo that they had awakened the cupid-ity of the king, who tried, in every way to get poss

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