And, Finally, To Show The Greatness
Of The Tribe, I Read The 14th Chapter Of 2d Chronicles, In Which
It
Is written how Zerah, the Ethiopian, with a host of a thousand
thousand, met the Jew Asa with a large
Army, in the valley of
Zephathah, near Mareshah; adding to it that again, at a much
later date, we find the Ethiopians battling with the Arabs in the
Somali country, and with the Arabs and Portuguese at Omwita
(Mombas) - in all of which places they have taken possession of
certain tracts of land, and left their sons to people it.
To explain the way in which the type or physical features of
people undergo great changes by interbreeding, Mtesa was
instanced as having lost nearly every feature of his Mhuma blood,
but the kings of Uganda having been produced, probably for
several generations running, of Waganda mothers. This amused
Kamrasi greatly, and induced me to inquire how his purity of
blood was maintained - "Was the king of Unyoro chosen, as in
Uganda, haphazard by the chief men - or did the eldest son sit by
succession on the throne?" The reply was, "The brothers fought
for it, and the best man gained the crown."
Kamrasi then began counting the leaves of the Bible, an amusement
that every negro that gets hold of a book indulges in; and,
concluding in his mind that each page or leaf represented one
year of time since the beginning of creation, continued his
labour till one quarter of the way through the book, and then
only shut it up on being told, if he desired to ascertain the
number more closely, he had better count the words.
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