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[ Subsequently altered to "This gloomy night, these grisly waves, etc." The stanza is really borrowed from Hafiz. See Payne's Hafiz, vol. i., p.2.]
"Dark the night and fears possess us, Of the waves and whirlpools
wild:
Of our case what know the lightly Laden on the shores that
dwell?"
173 ([return])
[ The ruler, like the country, is called Kazembe.]
174 ([return])
[ Dr. Lacerda died at Lunda 18th October 1798. Burton's translation, The Lands of the Cazembe, etc., appeared in 1873.]
175 ([return])
[ The Beharistan. 1st Garden.]
176 ([return])
[ J. A. Grant, born 1827, died 10th February, 1892.]