chap, xiii.] KAMRASI SEEKS MY ALLIANCE. 
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amused with our wretched appearance ; he continued, 
“ So you have been to the M’wootan N’zige ! well, you 
don’t look much the better for it; why, I should not 
have known you ! ha ha ha ! ” I was not in a humour 
to enjoy his attempts at facetiousness; I therefore told 
him, that he had behaved disgracefully and meanly, 
and that I should publish his character among the ad¬ 
joining tribes as below that of the most petty chief 
that I had ever seen. “ Never mind,” he replied, “ it’s 
all over now; you really are thin, both of you ;—it 
was your own fault, why did you not agree to fight 
Fowooka? You should have been supplied with fat 
cows and milk and butter, had you behaved well.” 
“I will have my men ready to attack Fowooka to¬ 
morrow ;—the Turks have ten men; you have thirteen; 
—thirteen and ten make twenty-three ;—you shall be 
carried if you can’t walk, and we will give Fowooka no 
chance—he must be killed—only kill him, and my 
brother will give you half of his kingdom.” He con¬ 
tinued, “ You shall have supplies to-morrow ; I will 
go to my brother , who is the great M’Kamma Kamrasi, 
and he will send you all you require. I am a little 
man, he is a big one ; I have nothing; he has every¬ 
thing, and he longs to see you; you must go to him 
directly, he lives close by.” I hardly knew whether 
he was drunk or sober—“ my brother the great 
M’Kamma Kamrasi!” I felt bewildered with astonish¬ 
ment; then, “ifyou are not Kamrasi, pray who are 
you?” I asked. “ Who am I ? ” he replied, “ ha ha ha !— 
that’s very good ; who am I ?—why, I am M’Gambi, the 
brother of Kamrasi,—I am the younger brother, but 
he is the King.” 
The deceit of this country was incredible—I had 
positively never seen the real Kamrasi up to this 
moment, and this man M’Gambi now confessed to 
having impersonated the king his brother, as Kamrasi 
was afraid that I might be in league with Debono’s 
people to murder him, and therefore he had ordered 
his brother M’Gambi to act the king. 
