Punch,  31 (1856), 252.

Brutal Assault

Anon

Genre:

News-Commentary, Drollery

Subjects:

Exploration, Ethnology


    Reporting the 'brutal attack' on 'the African explorer', David Livingstone, claims that his attacker told him a riddle concerning the similarity between the name of an African lake (Ngami) and that of a female fowl hanging up a fortnight in the heat ('Hen gamey').



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