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BROWN MEN ARE CALLED WHITE. [chap. viii. 
country on the west bank of the Nile, but that they 
are ever at war with each other. 
“J examined another native who had been to Ma- 
gungo to purchase Simbi (the cowrie-shell); he says 
that a white man formerly arrived there annually, 
and brought a donkey with him in a boat; that he 
disembarked his donkey and rode about the country, 
dealing with the natives, and bartering cowries and 
brass-coil bracelets. This man had no firearms, but 
wore a sword. The king of Magungo was called 
‘ Cherrybambi/ ” 
This information was the first clue to the facts that 
I subsequently established, and the account of the 
white men (Arabs) arriving at Magungo was confirmed 
by the people of that country twelve months after I 
obtained this vague information at Latooka. 
Arabs, being simply brown, are called white men 
by the blacks of these countries. I was called a very 
white man as a distinction, but I have frequently been 
obliged to take off my shirt to exhibit the difference 
of colour between myself and my men, as my face was 
brown. 
