ocr: "How will we: get down that terrible road?" I asked Petrus, looking ahead at the viaduct of crumbly mud. "We will go through thei marsh, Daddy." It was stickier, and it was slow, but this route worked. Lealui was a peaceful, shady settlement of twittering birds on a low-level plain criss- crossed by canals. The royal compound, dating from the 18605, was near the river, which plays a central role in the Litunga's rule and his rituals, the: most elaborate being the annual royal progress, called the Kuomboka, from his summer to his winter quarters. At the end oft the rains, when the river is in f ...
