Five Weeks in a Balloon - 15

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Chapter 15 Kazeh.—The Noisy Market-place.—The Appearance of the Balloon.—The Wangaga.—The Sons of the Moon.—The Doctor's Walk.—The Population of the Place.—The Royal Tembe.—The Sultan's Wives.—A Royal Drunken-Bout.— Joe an Object of Worship.—How they Dance in the Moon.—A Reaction.— Two Moons in one Sky.—The Instability of Divine Honors. Kazeh, an important point in Central Africa, is not a city; in truth, there are no cities in the interior. Kazeh is but a collec-tion of six extensive excavations. There are enclosed a few houses and slave-huts, with little courtyards and small gar-dens, carefully cultivated with onions, potatoes, cucumbers, pumpkins, and mushrooms, of perfect