country on the west bank of the Nile, but that they
are ever at war with each other.
“ I examined another native who had been to Ma-
gungo to purchase Simbi (the cowrie-shell); he says
that a white man formerly arrived there annually,
and brought a donkey with him in a b o a t th a t he
disembarked his donkey and rode about the country,
dealing with the natives, and bartering cowries and
brass-coil bracelets. This man had no firearms, but
wore a sword. The king of Magungo was called
‘ Cherrybambi.5 ”
This information was the first clue to the facts that
I subsequently established, and the account of the
white men (Arabs) arriving at Magungo was confirmed
by the people of that country twelve months after I
obtained this vague information at Latooka.
Arabs, being simply brown, are called white men
by the blacks of these countries. I was called a very
white man as a distinction, but I have frequently been
obliged to take off my shirt to exhibit the difference
of colour between myself and my men, as my face was
brown. 1