MOMBASA 



us, and who was going to Uganda to join the 4th 

 Battalion King's African Rifles, kindly lent my 

 husband two Arabic grammars by Green, until he 

 could get his own, as he has quite a mania for 

 studying languages. However, this man amused us 

 by saying that he wrote home to his sister for 

 " Green's Arabic," and after waiting two months or 

 so, he received a little packet of gum arable with a 

 letter expressing surprise that he should want it. 

 Since then we have received a letter from him and 

 are now not surprised at his sister's mistake. 



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