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Title: Stanley and the white heroes in Africa; being an edition from Mr. Stanley's late personal writings on the Emin Pasha relief expedition ..
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: Kelsey, D. M., (from old catalog) comp
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Publisher: St. Louis and Philadelphia, Scammel & company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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d on more than one occasion Dr. Barth was taken for a rainmaker, and requested earnestly to exercise his powers in behalf of the parched country. Whenever possible, he evaded this request, but sometimes he was obliged to offer up a prayer. The following extract from this journal may give an idea of the character of the people with whom he had to deal: After a long conversation about the rainy season, the quantity of rain which falls in different countries, and the tropical regions especially, I felt myself obliged to say before them the fatha, or opening prayer of the Koran; and to their great amusement and delight, concluded the Arabic prayer with a form in their own language—Alia Jiokkt ndiam—which, although meaning originally, *God may give Avater, has become quite a complimentary phrase, so that the original meaning has been almost lost, few people being conscious of it. It so happened that the ensuing night a heavy thunderstorm gathered from the east, bringing a considerable quantity
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ADVENTURES OF DR. BARTH AND COMPANIONS. 133 of rain, which even found its way into my badly thatched hut. This apparent efficacy of my prayer induced the inhabitants to return the following day, to solicit from me a repetition of my performance; but I succeeded in evading their request by exhorting them to patience. But, on the other hand, I was obliged, in addition to a strong dose of emetic, to give the governor my blessing, as he was going to the capital, and was rather afraid of his liege lord the young prince Ahmedu, while at the same time his overbearing neighbors, the Tawarek (Tuaricks) inspired him with a good deal of fear. In the sequel, he was very well received at the capital, and therefore could not complain of the inefficacy of my inspiration; but nevertheless, not having had the slightest suspicion that I was not what I had represented myself to be, he was much shocked when he afterwards learned that I was a Christian, to the great amusement of the Sheik el Bakay, who wrote to him repeat

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