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Examples
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They being dismissed, a band of musicians came in, when _pomba_ was drunk by the queen, and handed to her visitor and high officers and attendants.
Great African Travellers From Mungo Park to Livingstone and Stanley William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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The chief, having greeted them cordially, and swinging the fowl by one leg and sprinkling the contents of the gourd over them, led them to his magic-house, which being sprinkled in the same way, he finally spread a cow-skin under a tree, bidding them sit on it, and then presented them with a bowl of _pomba_.
Great African Travellers From Mungo Park to Livingstone and Stanley William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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Next day he sent some _pomba_, fowls, and plantains as a present.
Great African Travellers From Mungo Park to Livingstone and Stanley William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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He used to go round to the houses of his subjects, managing to arrive just as the pomba-brewing was finished, when he would take a draught, and then go on to the next.
Great African Travellers From Mungo Park to Livingstone and Stanley William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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He took the opportunity of visiting an hospitable old lady, who treated him and his attendants to the last drop of _pomba_ in her house, smoking her pipe with him, and did not hesitate to speak of the horrors of the Uganda punishments.
Great African Travellers From Mungo Park to Livingstone and Stanley William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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Having crossed over to a woody island some distance from the shore, the party sat down to a repast, when large bowls of _pomba_ were served out.
Great African Travellers From Mungo Park to Livingstone and Stanley William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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On one of these occasions the chief, who was present, drank more _pomba_ than any of the people.
Great African Travellers From Mungo Park to Livingstone and Stanley William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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In front of a hut sat an old man and woman, smeared with white mud, and holding pots of _pomba_ in their laps, while people came, bringing baskets full of plantain squash and more pots of _pomba_.
Great African Travellers From Mungo Park to Livingstone and Stanley William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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Meantime, the elders sit on the ground drinking _pomba_.
Great African Travellers From Mungo Park to Livingstone and Stanley William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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Being fond of a practical joke, he used to beg for quinine, which he would mix slyly with _pomba_, and then offer it to his courtiers, enjoying the wry faces they made when partaking of the bitter draught.
Great African Travellers From Mungo Park to Livingstone and Stanley William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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