Much of their ill conduct may be ascribed to seeing that after the flight of the Johanna men I was entirely dependent on them: more enlightened people often take advantage of men in similar circumstances; though I have seen pure Africans come out generously to aid one abandoned to their care.

I have faults myself.
_15th November, 1868._--The Arabs have some tradition of the Emir Musa coming as far south as the Jagga country.

Some say he lived N.E.

of Sunna, now Mteza; but it is so mixed up with fable and tales of the Genii (Mageni), that it cannot refer to the great Moses, concerning whose residence at Meroee and marriage of the king of Ethiopia's daughter there is also some vague tradition further north: the only thing of interest to me is the city of Meroee, which is lost, and may, if built by ancient Egyptians, still be found.
The Africans all beckon with the hand, to call a person, in a different way from what Europeans do.

The hand is held, as surgeons say, _prone_, or palm down, while we beckon with the hand held _supine_, or palm up: it is quite natural in them, for the idea in their mind is to lay the hand on the person and draw him towards them.
If the person wished for is near, say forty yards off, the beckoner puts out his right hand on a level with his breast, and makes the motion of catching the other by shutting the fingers and drawing him to himself: if the person is further off, this motion is exaggerated by lifting up the right hand as high as he can; he brings it down with a sweep towards the ground, the hand being still held prone as before.
In nodding assent they differ from us by lifting up the chin instead of bringing it down as we do.