Crossword-Solution: POMBA 5 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 11

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.

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.

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.

Speke gave the king the bottle and gauge, which delighted him amazingly, and the old doctor, who begged for _pomba_, got a goat for his trouble." News reached them soon after this of the death of Budja, one of the officers who had attended them, and who it was said had died from being bewitched by a charm put into a pot of _pomba_ by one of Kamrasi's frontier officers, the poor fellow having evidently been poisoned.

These people, covered with war paint--something like clowns in a fair--rushed down the hill with their spears full tilt, and, performing various evolutions, conducted them to the governor, who advanced, attended by his familiar--he holding a white hen, the latter a gourd of _pomba_ and a little twig.