Kamba Bible History (3)

**List: Kamba Ministry the Bible ( the Bible ) Kamba... KIKAMBA. "KIKAMBA is the language spoken by the various tribes of the Wakamba, who, collectively, may be said to number at least 70,000 or 80,000 souls.   They dwell in East Africa, at a distance of about 400 miles from the coast of Mombas, which they occasionally visit for purposes of traffic.   They are not only traders, but likewise cultivators of the soil; and although they have fixed habitations, they often travel to a great distance from their native country, for the purpose of hunting elephants and bartering ivory.   Dr. Krapf is of opinion that, through the instrumentality of this nation, the very centre of Africa, and the region where the Bahr-el-Abiad rises may ultimately be reached.    The Wakamba have no chiefs like the other tribes in their vicinity, their government being wholly of a patriarchal kind.   Their ideas on spiritual subjects are very grovelling and limited, extending merely to belief in witchcraft, and fear of evil spirits.   Their language is a dialect of the Nilotic stock, and resembles that of the Wanika.   It has been reduced to writing by Dr. Krapf, and a translation of the Gospel of St. Mark was some years since prepared by the same indefatigable my.: this, however, does not appear to have yet been printed."--The Bible of Every Land. (1860, Second Edition)   Samuel Bagster   [Info only: "1850 Mark" per 1972.] KIKAMBA--1860   S. Bagster   [Info only: n.d. Mark 4:1-19 unknown.]

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