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Title: Round the black man's garden
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Colvile, Zélie Isabelle Richaud de Préville, lady
Subjects: Africa -- Description and travel
Publisher: Edinburgh and London, W. Blackwood and sons
Contributing Library: Mugar Memorial Library, Boston University
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston University

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sieur Treich - Laplene got anattack of fever from which he never really re-covered ; and although he picked up a little on theship, I heard that he died shortly after his arrivalin France. We soon made the acquaintance of CaptainBinger, who was a most agreeable and interestingcompanion, and who helped to while away themonotony of the voyage by a narrative of hisadventures. As it has since been published in his Du Niger au Golfe de Guinee, le pays de Kong etle Mossi, I will not try to condense it; but it wasa source of great interest to me at the time, and ithas always been a satisfaction to me to recall thatI was fortunate enouoii to hear it from him at thevery moment of the completion of his journey. Considering the hardships he had undergone, heappeared to be wonderfully well, although he saidthat both he and his native companions had suffereda good deal from fever, chiefly brought on by hungerand fatigue. Although the greater part of thecountry through which he had passed had never
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CAPITAINE BINGER. CAPTAIN BINGER. 331 before been explored by a white man, he found thatthe inhabitants were for the most part Mohamme-dans, and fairly civilised, among the exceptions beingthe Gurunga, the tribe to which belonged the girlwhom I have already mentioned. One chief of thistribe was nevertheless remarkably friendly, and inproof of his goodwill insisted on presenting thetraveller with a handmaiden, an addition to his smallparty which Captain Binger at first looked upon asanything but desirable. One of his native followers,however, volunteered to lead her to the altar, andher status being thus satisfactorily settled, she be-came a most useful member of the expedition, and,accompanied by her little monkey, followed it faith-fully through all its dangers. Her husband hadcome on board very lame, having in his leg one ofthose unpleasant 23ests of this coast, the guinea-worm.I do not know how it enters a human body, but hav-ing once lodged itself, it grows at a marvellous pace,un

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