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of u~ had finished our work in Massachusetts, he going back to his home in NewYork City and I returning to Richmond, he asked me to correspond with him. I promised to do so and our friendship after a year‘s correspondence became love and he proposed and I accepted him. We were married in Raleigh by Rev. J.J. Worlds, pastor of the First Baptist Chiwch, colored.

	lip . T . Barnum had captured my husband when he was a boy and. brought him to ~erica from Abyssinia, educated him and then sent hirn back to his native country. He would not staï and soon he was in. Lmerica again. He was of the Catholic f~aith in America and they conferred the honor of priesthood upon him but after he married me this priesthood was‘ taken away and he joined the Episcopal Church. After we were married we decided to go on an extensive lecture tour. He had been a headsman in his own country and a prince. ~e took the customs of his people and his experiences as the subject of our lectures. I could sing, play the guitar, violin and. piano, but I did not know his native language. He began to te ach me and as • soon as • I could s Ing th e song ~ ~ F~QuIigai~iQ~j1 in his language which went this way:

Ngama i-bata,Njami buyek Wema Wemeta, Negana i ..‚ bukek diol ‚ di Nj ami, i‘-diol de Kak Arinimix, Annimix hanoi

Bata ba Satana i-bu butete
Bata ba Npj ami j bunanan
Bata be satana ba laba j wa~
Bata ba Njami ba laba ~unonga