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CHAPTEE III. 



Footsteps of Moses. Geology of Manyuema land. "A drop of comfort."' 

 Continued sufferings. A stationary explorer. Consecpiences of trusting 

 to theory. Nomenclature of Rivers and Lakes. Plunder and murder 

 is Ujijian trading. Comes out of hut for first time after eighty days' 

 illness. Arab cure for ulcerated sores. Rumour of letters. The loss 

 of medicines a great trial now. The broken-hearted chief. Return 

 of Arab ivory traders. Future plans. Thankfulness for Mr. Edward 

 Young's Search Expedition. The Hornbilled Phoenix. Tedious delays. 

 The bargain for the boy. Sends letters to Zanzibar. Exasperation of 

 Manyuema against Arabs. The " Sassassa bird." The disease " Safura." 



Bambaee£, 25th August, 1870. — One of my waking dreams 

 is that the legendary tales about Moses coming up into 

 Inner Ethiopia with Merr his foster-mother, and founding 

 a city which he called in her honour " Meroe," may have a 

 substratum of fact. He was evidently a man of transcendent 

 genius, and we learn from the speech of St. Stephen that 

 ■" he was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and 

 -was mighty in words and in deeds." His deeds must have 

 been well known in Egypt, for "he supposed that his 

 brethren would have understood how that God by His hand 

 would deliver them, but they understood not." His sup- 

 position could not be founded on his success in smiting a 

 single Egyptian ; he was too great a man to be elated by 

 a, single act of prowess, but his success on a large scale in 

 Ethiopia afforded reasonable grounds for believing that his 

 brethren would be proud of their countryman, and disposed 

 to follow his leadership, but they were slaves. The notice 



