quire after, my guns, lest he should seize them likewise.
I would stay no longer among such people.
Kamrasi, in answer, begged I would not be afraid;
there was no occasion for alarm; Bombay would be here
shortly. I had promised to wait patiently for his return,
and as soon as he did return, I would be sent off without
one day’s delay, for I was not his slave, that he should use
violence upon me. Riimanika’s men, too, would be allowed
to go, only that the road was unsafe, and he feared
Rumanika would abuse him if any harm befell them.
2 9 th. To-day I met Kamrasi at his new reception-
palace on this side the Kafu—-taking a Bible to explain
all I fancied I knew about the origin and present condition
of the Wahiima branch of the Ethiopians, beginning
with Adam, to show how it was the king had heard by
tradition that at one time the people of his race were half
white and half black. Then, proceeding with the Flood,
I pointed out that the Europeans remained white, retaining
Japhets blood; whilst the Arabs are tawny, after
Shem; and the Africans black, after Ham. And, finally, to
show the greatness of the tribe, I read the 14th chapter of
-2d Chronicles, :in which it is written how Zerah, the Ethiopian,
with a host of a thousand thousand, met the Jew
Asa with a large army, in the valley of Zephathah, near
Mareshah; adding to it that again, at a much later date,
we find the Ethiopians battling with the Arabs in the
Somali country, and with the Arabs and Portuguese at
Omwita (Mombas) in all of which places they have taken
possession of certain tracts of land, and left their sons to
people it.
To explain the way in which the type or physical features
of people undergo great changes by interbreeding,
Mtdsa was instanced as having lost nearly every feature
of his Mhuma blood, by the kings of Uganda having
been produced, probably for several generations running,
of Waganda mothers. This amused Kamrasi greatly,
Kamrasi’a first Lesson m the Bible.