INSULTED BY THE KING 
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The people higher up were enemies to all white men, he said, 
because a white traveller there had shot a native chief in a 
dispute, and since then the route was closed. He offered to sell 
cattle, hut had no ivory or feathers. Whenever I tried to speak, 
the ‘ talker ’ insultingly ordered me to be quiet and listen. Much 
annoyed at last, and not by any means crediting Indala’s words, 
I got up abruptly, and calling the startled Franz to follow, 
walked off to the shore with a nod to the astonished king and 
his suite as farewell; and had got possession of the canoe we 
came over in before the canoe-men were well aware of my 
intentions, and ordered them to row us home. Thus ended the 
visit. Hammar and I endeavoured to patch up a connected 
line of thought from all that had taken place, but beyond 
arriving at the certain fact that this king was unfrien dly to us 
there seemed no data to form a conclusion from. 
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