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taken of the matter by Pharaoh showed that he was eyed 

 by the great as a dangerous, if not powerful, man. He 

 " dwelt " in Midian for some time before his gallant bearing 

 towards the shepherds by the well, commended him to the 

 priest or prince of the country. An uninteresting wife, and 

 the want of intercourse with kindred spirits during the long- 

 forty years' solitude of a herdsman's life, seem to have acted 

 injuriously on his spirits, and it was not till he had with 

 Aaron struck terror into the Egyptian mind, that the " man 

 Moses" again became "very great in the eyes of Pharaoh 

 and his servants." The Ethiopian woman whom he married 

 could scarcely be the daughter of Eeuel or Jethro, for 

 Midian was descended from Keturah, Abraham's concu- 

 bine, and they were never considered Cushite or Ethio- 

 pian. If he left his wife in Egypt she would now be 

 some fifty or sixty years old, and all the more likely to 

 be despised by the proud prophetess Miriam as a daughter 

 of Ham. 



I dream of discovering some monumental relics of Meroe, 

 and if anything confirmatory of sacred history does remain, 

 I pray to be guided thereunto. If the sacred chronology 

 would thereby be confirmed, I would not grudge the toil 

 and hardships, hunger and pain, I have endured — the irritable 

 ulcers would only be discipline. 



Above the fine yellow clay schist of Manyuema the banks 

 of Tanganyika reveal 50 feet of shingle mixed with red 

 earth ; above this at some parts great boulders lie ; after 

 this 60 feet of fine clay schist, then 5 strata of gravel under- 

 neath, with a foot stratum of schist between them. The first 

 seam of gravel is about 2 feet, the second 4 feet, and the 

 lowest of all about 30 feet thick. The fine schist was formed 

 in still water, but the shingle must have been produced in 

 stormy troubled seas if not carried hither and thither by ice 

 and at different epochs. 



This Manyuema country is unhealthy, not so much from 



