In Afric’s Forest and Jungle 
Mussulmans, and they were so intolerant that 
nothing but the fear of Kumee prevented them 
from attacking missionaries while preaching in 
the market-place. On one occasion, a Mussul¬ 
man even drew his sword to cut a missionary. 
Some of these traders had been as far as Stamboul, 
Cairo and Bagdad and had caught the intolerant 
spirit of the Turks. Converts to this faith were 
quite numerous in this part of Africa and they 
were rapidly increasing. 1 met with one of their 
missionaries who was a Persian. He had not 
seen his home since he was a young man, al¬ 
though he was then old enough to have a mar¬ 
ried son. 
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