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AFRICA AND ITS EXPLORATION. 
suffering on the cross, He asked His great Father to 
forgive them. I showed the difference in character 
between Him whom white men love and adore, and 
Mohammed, whom the Arabs revere : how Jesus en- 
deavoured to teach mankind that we should love all 
men, excepting none, while Mohammed taught his 
followers that the slaying of the pagan and the un- 
believer was an act that merited Paradise. I left it to 
Mtesa and his chiefs to decide which was the worthier 
character. I also sketched in brief the history of 
religious belief from Adam to Mohammed. I had also 
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begun to translate to him the Ten Commandments, and 
Idi, the Emperor’s writer, transcribed in Kiganda the 
words of the Law as given to him in choice Swahili by 
Robert Feruzi, one of my boat’s crew, and a pupil of the 
Universities Mission at Zanzibar. 
The enthusiasm with which I launched into this work 
of teaching was soon communicated to Mtesa and some 
of his principal chiefs, who became so absorbingly in- 
terested in the story as I gave it to them that little of 
other business was done. The political burzah and seat 
of justice had now become an alcove, where only the 
moral and religious laws were discussed. 
Before we broke up our meeting Mtesa informed me 
that I should meet a white man at his palace the next 
day- 
“ A white man, or a Turk ? ” 
“ A white man like yourself,” repeated Mtesa. 
“ No ; impossible ! ” 
“ Yes, you will see. He comes from Masr (Cairo), 
from Gordoom (Gordon) Pasha.” 
“ Ah, very well, I shall be glad to see him, and if he 
is really a white man I may probably stay with you four 
or five days longer,” said I to Mtesa, as I shook hands 
with him, and bade him good-night. 
The “ white man,” reported to be coming the next 
day, arrived at noon with great eclat and flourishes of 
trumpets, the sound of which could be heard all over 
the capital. Mtesa hurried off a page to invite me to 
his burzah. I hastened up by a private entrance. 
