lo Wanderings in Eastern Africa. 
their way to the Church Missionary Society's mission 
at Rabai Mpia, where Dr. Krapf met with his old col- 
league, Mr. Rebmann. The question to be decided 
upon now was, among which tribe of the Wanika 
the new mission was to be established. Circumstances 
led them to fix upon Kauma, the most northern of the 
Kinika tribes, and on the borders of the Galla land. 
It was hoped that a mission at Kauma would prove a 
stepping-stone to the Gallas. In a few days we find 
the party en route for Kauma. They reached the 
place in two days, and Dr. Krapf thus describes his 
reception : " Six or seven chiefs of Kauma came to 
decide our case. I first explained to them that my 
Christian friends at home had sent me, with my two 
companions, to teach the Wanika and Galla the 
Word of God, just as I had formerly instructed the 
people at Rabai. If the Kauma people were inclined 
to receive teachers, my two friends would come and 
reside among them." 
To this the principal chief, Mashenga Manga, re- 
plied : The country is yours. You can do whatever 
you please. You have our permission to build and 
teach. Whoever is desirous of entering your book 
may do so ; we have no objection against it." 
At a subsequent interview the chiefs expressed 
themselves in the 3ame manner, and wished to empha- 
sise their declaration by performing the ceremonies of 
the " Sadaka," and the " Kiapo," the "sacrifice and 
the oath." 
All this looked very promising. But the mission- 
aries were not in a position to commence their work 
at once. They needed to know more of the lan- 
guages than they had yet acquired, and on this 
