He wanted also medicines for longevity and perpetual strength.

Those I had given him had, he said, deprived him of strength, and he felt much reduced by their effects.

He would like me to go with him and attack the island his three brothers, Rionga, Wahitu, and Pohuka, are in possession of.

When I said I never fought with black men, he wished to know if I would not shoot them if they attacked me.

My replay was, alluding to our fight in the river, "How did N'yamyonjo's men fare ?" I found that Kamrasi had thirty brothers and as many sisters.
4th .-- I gave Kamrasi a bottle of quinine, which we call "strong back," and asked him in return for a horn containing all the powders necessary to give me the gift of tongues, so that I should be able to converse with any black men whom I might meet with.