Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 1836-1907 · Boston, CT : Hall and Locke · leaf 34
endeavored to talk abouthis further journeys and secure the promise of assist-ance ; but the king always evaded the subject, sayinghe would speak of such things another time, and thenapparently forgetting all about it. By this time thecustom of the country required that he should call uponthe… … f&B& ting, plainly garbed in mbugu, upon a carpet spreadupon the ground within a curtain of mbugu, her elbowresting on a pillow of the same bark material; the onlyornaments on her person being an abrus necklace, anda piece of mbugutied round her head, ^while a folding look-ing-glass, much…
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