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CHAPTER XXVI.
KAMBA BOMBO.
The gth August was an important day for us. In the
morning a number of mounted men and patrols drew off to
the south-west, driving all the flocks and herds before them,
so that the plain echoed again with the shouting of men,
the trampling and neighing of horses, the bleating of sheep
and the angry grunting of yaks. Shereb Lama, who still
continued to look at the dark side of things, got it into his
head that they were clearing the course for the charge with
which they intended to overwhelm us.
At ten o’clock our friend the interpreter appeared again,
and told us that Kamba Bombo, chief of Nakk-chu, had
arrived with a large following, and wished to see us at once.
And in fact quite a village of tents had sprung up a mile or
two away on the road to Lassa. The chieftain’s tent was
very large, and blue and white, and columns of smoke were
already curling up from the others. Our Lama, upon
seeing all the newly-arrived horsemen, and men on foot
swarming about the airy village, became a prey to the
keenest disquietude.
The interpreter’s errand was to invite us, in the name of
Kamba Bombo, to remove our tents to the immediate
vicinity of his own and to join him at dinner. In one of
the tents, he said, dinner was already being served :
in the middle was a sheep roasted whole, surrounded by
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