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Title: Tramps round the Mountains of the Moon and through the back gate of the Congo State by T. Broadwood Johnson. With an introd. by T.F. Victor Buxton
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Johnson, T. Broadwood
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Publisher: London T.F. Unwin
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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ay whenI was feehng that I had had enough ^^mpaka thatday for a month, I remember their coming in in astring with the usual formula, ^ Tunyina mpaka ( Wehave a dispute). Well, sit down and tell me allabout it, I could only answer in a despairing sort ofway. Tikiri kigambo kikoto ( It isnt a big matter )was their reply, bringing me a sense of relief, Erisasays to-morrow is the Fourth Sunday after Trinity, butwe say its the Fifth ! For once Erisa was wrong, and the rest went offimmensely pleased and good-humoured at his dis-comfiture. He was only a little chap, but morethoughtful than most of them, and wasnt oftenwrong. And here I must tell you something aboutmy household, for I got to have a very warm regardfor my boys, and it was often a source of amazementto me how good and reliable they became. It was at Mengo that I picked up the first of thembefore my start up-country. A missionary comingdown from Toro, on his way home for furlough,introduced to me his three boys that I might take
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<i, w MAKING FRIENDS 99 them back and keep them on in my service if it weremutually agreeable. Two Baganda boys also came tome in Mr. Millars house offering to serve ; one of themI took on readily on hearing his character, but theother had never served a European before and seemedso young to take so far away from his home (beingonly about eleven years old), that I demurred. How-ever, on his coming back again and pressing it, Iagreed, telling him that if he didnt feel happy outthere he must come back home. This was Erisa, andI had reason afterwards to be glad I took him.Eighteen months later he came saying that he wantedto go back, and whilst telling him pleasantly that Iwas sorry to lose him I reminded him of my promiseto provide for his return, and hired a returning porterto look after him and carry his things. We partedperfectly good friends, after prayer together for Godsprotection over him on the journey, and the otherboys went some distance along the road to see him off.In the

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