Crossword-Solution: PALAVERS 8 letters, 10 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 13

They were well known to our attendants, and had formed a part of a gang of several hundreds taken to Mosambique by the Ajawa at the very time when his Excellency was entertaining English officers with anti-slavery palavers.

For an hour there was a series of discourses, harangues, palavers and dances, executed not only by professionals, but by the Amazons, who displayed much martial grace.

Much pombè was drunk; many palavers took place; a constant drumming of gongs and tom-toms disturbed their ears by day and by night.

Towards the end of November, four camels were procured, an Abban was engaged, we hired two women cooks and a fourth servant; my baggage was reformed, the cloth and tobacco being sewn up in matting, and made to fit the camels' sides [32]; sandals were cut out for walking, letters were written, messages of dreary length,--too important to be set down in black and white,--were solemnly entrusted to us, palavers were held, and affairs began to wear the semblance of departure.

Hook, in his double-refined nonsense, palavers about the blasphemy of white wine after brown game--and he is not far wrong either;--at least I never thought he was, so long as my Hermitage lasted; but at the time I speak of, it was still to the fore--so the moment the pint a-piece was out, “Hold hard, Tom, now,” cheeps little Conshy.