Some people say that I have never recovered it; perhaps you are one of them, Allan.
"At last the wound in my skull healed, after a clever English naval surgeon had removed some bits of splintered bone, and my strength came back to me.

I was and still am an American subject, and in those days we had no consul at Zanzibar, if there is one there now, of which I am not sure, and of course no warship.

The English made what inquiries they could for me, but could find out little or nothing, since all the country about Kilwa was in possession of Arab slave-traders who were supported by a ruffian who called himself the Sultan of Zanzibar." Again he paused, as though overcome by the sadness of his recollections.
"Did you never hear any more of your wife ?" asked Stephen.
"Yes, Mr.Somers; I heard at Zanzibar from a slave whom our mission bought and freed, that he had seen a white woman who answered to her description alive and apparently well, at some place I was unable to identify.

He could only tell me that it was fifteen days' journey from the coast.

She was then in charge of some black people, he did not know of what tribe, who, he believed, had found her wandering in the bush.
He noted that the black people seemed to treat her with the greatest reverence, although they could not understand what she said.