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The vakeel and Yaseen started.<\/p>\n<p>After some days the absconded guide, Rabonga, appeared with a number of men, but without either my vakeel or Yaseen. He carried with him a small gourd bottle, carefully stopped; this he broke, and extracted from the inside two pieces of printed paper that Kamrasi had sent to me in reply.<\/p>\n<p>On examining the papers, I found them to be portions of the English Church Service translated into (I think) the &#8220;Kisuabili&#8221; language, by Dr Krapf! There were many notes in pencil on the margin, written in English, as translations of words in the text. 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