Chapter XV. 

Return to the Congo Mouth. 



In the evening there was a palaver. 

I need hardly say that my guide, after being paid to show me Nsundi, never had the slightest intention to go beyond the Yellala. Irritated by sleeping in the open air, and by the total want of hospitality amongst the bushmen, he and his moleques had sat apart all day, the picture of stubborn discontent, and 

"Not a man in the place But had discontent written large in his face." 

I proposed to send back a party for rum, powder, and cloth to the extent of £150, or half the demand, and my factotum, Selim, behaved like a trump. Gidi Mavunga, quite beyond self-control, sprang up, and declared that, if the Mundele would not follow him, that obstinate person might remain behind. The normal official deprecation, as usual, made him the more headstrong; he rushed off and disappeared in the bush, followed by a part of his slaves, the others crying aloud to him, "Wenda!"-- get out! Seeing that the three linguisters did not move, he presently returned, and after a furious address in Fiote began a Portuguese tirade for my benefit. This white man had come to their country, and, instead of buying captives, was bent upon enslaving their Mfumos; but that "Branco" should suffer for his attempt; no "Mukanda" or book (that is, letter) should go down stream; all his goods belonged of right to his guide, and thus he would learn to sit upon the heads of the noblesse, with much of the same kind. 
What did the narrator want to send back a party for?
And what else?
And anything else?
Where was the guide paid to show the narrator?
What did he have not intention of going beyond?
What was one of the things that irritated him?
And what else?
So where did he and the moleques sit?
Who was beyond self control and jumped up?
Where did he disappear to then?
Who followed him?
Who started a tirade in Portuguese?
Instead of buying captives, what was the white man bent upon?
What chapter is this?
What is the title of the passage?
What was there in the evening?
Who did Gidi Mavunga think might follow him?
What did some of the slaves cry out to him?
How many linguisters were there?
What is "Mukanda" ?
rum
 rum
powder
powder
cloth to the extent of £150
cloth to the extent of £150
Nsundi
Nsundi
Yellala
Yellala
sleeping in the open air
 sleeping in the open air
by the total want of hospitality amongst the bushmen
by the total want of hospitality amongst the bushmen
apart
apart
Gidi Mavunga
Gidi Mavunga
in the bush
in the bush
a part of his slaves
a part of his slaves
Gidi Mavunga,
Gidi Mavunga,
enslaving their Mfumos
 enslaving their Mfumos
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XV
Return to the Congo Mouth.
Return to the Congo Mouth. 
a palaver.
a palaver.
Mundele
Mundele
Wenda!"-- get out
Wenda!"-- get out
three
three
book
book