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AFRICA AND ITS EXPLORATION. 
RAIN DOCTORS. 
* will not let 
you have even 
a flint, so 
bother me no more.” 
“ But I have a brother 
and eight people at Brass 
Town,” rejoined Lander, 
“ and if you do not intend 
to pay King Boy, at least 
persuade him to bring them 
here, or else he will poison 
or starve my brother before I can get any assistance 
from a man-of-war, and sell all my people.” 
“ If you can get them on board,” replied the captain, 
“ I will take them away ; but, as I have told you before, 
you do not get a flint from me.” 
At last, on the 24th November, after weathering a 
strong breeze, which made the passage of the bar very 
rough and all but impossible, John Lander arrived on 
board. 
