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KISULODI-NI. 



we pursued our road under the grateful cover of 

 a little wood, and then over ridgy ground where 

 a scattered village, shortly to he wasted by the 

 Kimasai spear, was surrounded by the scantiest 

 cultivation. At the end of a five-mile walk We 

 entered the Mission House, introduced ourselves, 

 and received from Mr and Mrs Rehmann the 

 kindest welcome. They were then alone, M. 

 Deimler, who had lived with Mr Isenberg in 

 Abyssinia, having left them three days before in 

 H. M.'s ship Castor, the late Commodore Trotter. 

 We afterwards saw the latter at Zanzibar. 



The Kisulodi-ni Mission House ^ at llabaiMpia 

 appeared to us in these lands a miracle of in- 



^ I made a sketch of it which was published in Dr Krapf's 

 Travels, chap. xiii. Rabai Mpia, ' New Eabai,' is thus dis- 

 tinguished from a neighbouring settlement, Eabai Khu or 

 Kale, ' old Eabai.' According to M. Guillain (i. 247), the 

 ' Montagues de Eabaye ' correspond with the ' Alkerany ' of 

 the geographer Ibn Said, who says, ' East of Melinde is 

 Alkerany, the name of a mountain very well known to 

 travellers. This height projects into the sea for a distance 

 of about 100 miles in a north-east direction ; at the same 

 time it extends along the Continent in a straight line, trending 

 south for some 50 miles. Amongst the peculiarities of this 

 mountain is the following : the continental portion contains 

 an iron mine, which supplies all the country of the Zenj, 

 besides being exported, and the part under the sea contains 

 magnetic matter which attracts iron.' Evidently ' Alkerany ' 

 belongs to the geography of El Sindibad of the Sea, better 

 known as Sindbad the Sailor. 



