How I Found Livingstone Travels, Adventures And Discoveries In Central Africa Including Four Months Residence With Dr. Livingstone By Sir Henry M. Stanley
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There is plenty
of large water in this neighbourhood." Before breaking up the
assembly, Cazembe gave orders to let the white man go where he
would through his country undisturbed and unmolested.
He was the
first Englishman he had seen, he said, and he liked him.
Shortly after his introduction to the King, the Queen entered the
large house, surrounded by a body-guard of Amazons with spears.
She was a fine, tall, handsome young woman, and evidently thought
she was about to make an impression upon the rustic white man, for
she had clothed herself after a most royal fashion, and was armed
with a ponderous spear. But her appearance - so different from what
the Doctor had imagined - caused him to laugh, which entirely
spoiled the effect intended; for the laugh of the Doctor was so
contagious, that she herself was the first to imitate it, and the
Amazons, courtier-like, followed suit. Much disconcerted by this,
the Queen ran back, followed by her obedient damsels - a retreat
most undignified and unqueenlike, compared with her majestic advent
into the Doctor's presence. But Livingstone will have much to say
about his reception at this court, and about this interesting King
and Queen; and who can so well relate the scenes he witnessed, and
which belong exclusively to him, as he himself?
Soon after his arrival in the country of Lunda, or Londa, and
before he had entered the district ruled over by Cazembe, he had
crossed a river called the Chambezi, which was quite an important
stream.
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