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. 

Now, provide a numbered list of answers to these questions:

1. What was one of the things the narrator proposed to send a party for?
2. What's another?
3. And the third thing?
4. For how much?
5. Who behaved like a trump?
6. Where was the guide paid to show the narrator?
7. Where did he never have the intention of going behond?
8. What was one of the things that he was irritated by?
9. And what was another?
10. What did these make him and the moleques do all day?
11. What were they the picture of?
12. What did Gidi Mavunga say as he sprang up?
13. Where did he disappear to then?
14. Who followed him?
15. What did the other slaves yell out to him?
16. How many linguisters were there?
17. When he came back, what language was his address in?
18. But before Portuguese, what was he speaking in?
19. What was the white man bent on instead of buying captives?
20. What does "Mukanda" mean?
21. What chapter is this?

Numbered answers:
1. rum
2. powder
3. cloth
4. £150
5. Selim
6. Nsundi
7. Yellala
8. sleeping in the open air
9. total want of hospitality
10. sit apart
11. stubborn discontent
12. obstinate person might remain behind
13. in the bush
14. a part of his slaves
15. Wenda!"-- get out!
16. three
17. Portuguese
18. Fiote
19. enslaving their Mfumos
20. book
21. XV