270 APPENDIX. 



The common prayer is used as an introduction to all other Marrabout 

 prayers, or to any religious discourse. 



The story of Joseph differs so much from the Hebrew version, that I 

 have thought it worth relating, in nearly the words of my friend Dongo 

 Kary. The transformation of Benjamin into a sister, the royalty of 

 Joseph, the father's recognition of him by his garments, &c., have all 

 formed it into a romantic history, which is ended in the true African 

 style, that of the running away of Joseph's brethren into the bush, and 

 there turning into wild men. 



I have also a manuscript history of the kingdom of Kayor, but it is so 

 deficient of interest, being a list of names and places, and the number 

 of moons that the kings " sat down,'' (reigned) that I did not venture on 

 its publication. 



The Pagan story of the monkeys is common on the leeward coast, and 

 in the Bight of Benin, and 1 have no doubt has lost much in the transla- 

 tion, for the natives of those countries have infinite humour, and having 

 often watched them secretly, when they have been sitting in a circle, on 

 the ramparts of the fortress, I can imagine that they personate the 

 scolding and afterwards repentant wife, and hen-pecked husband, to the 

 life. On one occasion I had planted myself behind a cannon close to 

 them, when they were telling a ghost story; and on seeing, by the light 

 of the moon, that horror and alarm had seized the audience, it struck me, 

 that as I was clothed in white, I might act the ghost. I accordingly 

 threw my scarf over my head, and mounted on the gun-carriage; and as 

 I slowly appeared, they uttered one yell, and in an instant I had the 

 rampart to myself, nor could any persuasion tempt them to assemble on 

 that spot again. 



THE CREATION. 



Before all things, God made himself a splendid dwelling in the heavens. 

 He made the sacred books, Tanrat or Moses, Yandjal or Job, Foorkan or 

 Mohammed, and Saboor or David, and the pen with which he wrote them 

 was called " Moonwelkalami. 



