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bronze drum from Ang and further presents and news from Mills |
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As a payment he gave me a bronze drum which (239) he could easily part with as he has more than a hundred. To reconcile him with the canvas I filled the bag with cartridges and also gave him a bottle of rum. In addition he had brought some small wooden carvings and two of the goat-hair adorned sticks which are worn in the hair knot. For these I paid a decent price in cash. I also gave him Mills' message according to which Totok would be severely punished. Nevertheless his mood was less cheerful than it had been last time. The photographs in which he saw himself and of which I had promised him copies surprised him much less than I'd expected. |
