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AFRICA AND ITS EXPLORATION. 
they should be inclined to be insolent or misconduct 
themselves in any way. It was quite late before we 
reached the landing-place to which they carried me, and 
which was a Mamboe settlement, containing a few huts 
occupied by fishermen and hippopotamus-hunters ; their 
character being sufficiently indicated by the nets hung 
out on poles ornamented by crocodiles’ heads, and by 
VISIT OF THE QUEENS. 
the quantities of fish that were lying about. We found 
our quarters for the night in a grass-hut thirty yards 
long, but not more than ten feet wide and about ten 
feet high. 
While we were reloading our boats in the morning 
the royal squadron came in sight, and we awaited its 
arrival. The Mamboe in the place sent the queens a 
bullock which had been slaughtered the evening pre- 
