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Updated: May 1, 2025
He made the sevenfold circuit thereof and kissed the Black Stone. Thence he journeyed with all his followers to Safa and Marwa, where he performed the necessary rites, and at which latter place he sacrificed his victims, drawing them up in line between himself and the city.
The scoundrel, instead of going on to Uganda, as he had promised to do, conveying my present to Mtesa, had stopped here plundering the Wanyambo, and getting drunk on their pombe, called, in their language, marwa a delicious kind of wine made from the banana.
But the camels were fast movers and it did not take very long before they were passing through scrub jungle and finally reached the wide stretch of cultivation near Marwa.
Then he muttered inconsequently: "Confound the woman!" And closing his eyes resolutely he fell asleep. In the days that elapsed before the shoot at Marwa, Wargrave rode every afternoon to the Residency with the syce carrying his violin case, except when tennis was to be played. In their small community this could not escape notice and comment not that it occurred to him to try to avoid either.
"What about next Thursday?" said his friend, turning to Mrs. Norton. "Yes; that will suit me. Where shall we go?" "There are a lot of partridge and a few hares, I'm told, near the tank at Marwa, where there is a good deal of cultivation," answered Raymond.
The ceremony involved a running of some kind, and reminds one of the running between the two hills Marwa and Safa in Mekka that forms part of the religious observances in connection with a visit to the Kaaba. To connect this word with the Jewish festival of Purim, as Sayce proposes, is wholly unwarranted.
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