Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-01-25

Marut leaving out, however, any mention
Of their dealings with Lady Ragnall
| 1T is all true said Babemba when I
had finished. FOR that old woman of whom
| Light-in-Darkness speaks was one OF the
| wives Of my uncle and ] knew her we'll.
! Iiearken The Kendah are a terrible ma
| ton and countless in number and OF all
| people tho hercest Their king is called
| Simba, which means Lion. lie who rules
| is called Simba and has been so called
! for hundreds Of years. He is OF tho Black
| kendah whose god is the elephant Jana,
/ hut as LEht-in-Dark has said, there are
| also the White Kendah who are Arab men,
| the priests and traders Of the people The
| kendah will allow no stranger within their
! doors II one comes they kill him by tor
ment, or blind him and turn him out into
the desert which surrounds their country
there to die These things the old woman
who married my uncle told me, as she told
them to Light-n- Darkness, also I have
heard them from others, and what she did
not tell me that the White Kendah are
great breeders of the beasts called cames
which they sell to the Arabs of the north.
30 not near them, for N you pass the
desert the BlaCl, Kendah will kill you and
II YOU escape these. then their king, Simba,
will XIII you and II YOU escape MIN, then
their god Jana will KIN you and II you
escape him then their white priests VIII
kill YOU with their magic oh long before
you look upon The faces of those priests
you will be dead many times over"
Then why did they ask me to visit them,
Babomba?'
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