That night as the young explorer rested his tired limbs before a camp fire surrounded by his Swahili potters and a battery of spears in the hands of Maasai Warriors, the news that a white man had come in the locality spread like a bush-fire. Early the following day the entire community led by their chief and their famous medicine man – Mugo Wakibiru came to the scene; but to their consternation where the explorer had stood the previous evening, there stood a giant rock that resembled a turtle dove.

Nobody had a recollection of seeing that rock before.

The medicine man solved the puzzle and told them that the Whiteman was a messenger of peace from a great queen across many waters. The ancestral spirits had approved.

It was the White man’s calling card.