Note 24 — Chapter III · EXPEDITION TO MANDARA.

The band also sang some extempore verses on my joining them, of which the following is nearly a literal translation, and delighted their chief excessively.

Christian man he come,

Friend of us and sheikhobe;

White man, when he hear my song,

Fine new tobe give me.

Christian man all white,

And dollars white have he;

Kanourie like him come,

Black man’s friend to be.

See Felatah, how he run;

Barca Gana shake his spear:

White man carry two-mouthed gun,

That’s what make Felatah fear.