machilla

He was the British Consul at Loanda in Portuguese West Africa, and one morning about two months before, some natives had brought me in to him slung in a machilla.

A Rip Van Winkle Of The Kalahari Seven Tales of South-West Africa Frederick Cornell

The sick man was unconscious when they sent him off, in the machilla, toward Fort Pero d'Anhaya, with three of the askaris and fifteen of the porters.

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He made obeisance before the machilla, in which men of his own kind bore up a delicate, pale prodigy, an incredible creature from another aeon or planet.

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Four negroes, naked to the waist, supported a machilla, a canopied hammock of white duck that swung from a bamboo pole.

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Amid the shrilling of crickets a Wasena, the leader of the machilla bearers, spoke first.

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The machilla men, still nibbling at chunks of cold porridge, approached with the hammock swinging from their shoulders.

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From under the feet of the machilla carriers a cloud of mauve butterflies rose like flowers to strew themselves over her soft body.

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It was as if the machilla had suddenly become a bier.

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