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THE SIXTH CHAPTER
POLYNESIA AND THE KING
HEN they had gone a little way through the thick forest, they came to a wide, clear space; and they saw the King's palace which was made of mud.
This was where the King lived with his Queen, Ermintrude, and their son, Prince Bumpo. The Prince was away fishing for salmon in the river. But the King and Queen were sitting under an umbrella before the palace door. And Queen Ermintrude was asleep.
When the Doctor had come up to the palace the King asked him his business; and the Doctor told him why he had come to Africa.
"You may not travel through my lands," said the King. "Many years ago a white man came
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