A 'Courant' newspaper item ('Colored Man Says He Belongs to One of the Lost Tribes') profiles Samuel Valikovitz, a black Hebrew scribe ('sophor'), age 87, recently arrived from Boston and looking for work while intending to save money to return to Africa. He tells the reporter he was born at 'Mokomba, Egypt', a Hebrew colony of some 43,000-45,000 dark-skinned inhabitants east of the Nile, 147 miles from Port Said, under Turkish government, with three temples and free Hebrew schools; the colony speaks Loschen Khodish (the ancient Hebrew language), Turkish, Yiddish, Chaldic and English. He trained 17 years as a scribe at the 'Aberdeen Seminary' in Cairo, founded by Sir Moses Montefiore, until his eyesight failed. He arrived in the US the previous April and had been in Halifax, New York and Boston before this city; he keeps the Sabbath, will not work Saturdays, and avoids meat for fear it is not kosher. Rabbi Hurewitz and Rabbi Sternberg of the city both examined him and admit he is a Hebrew. The article separately mentions that, several years earlier, a different deaf-and-dumb colored Hebrew, also said to be from Africa, had visited the same city. A third independently scraped copy (node 4103) confirms the wording; no additional dating information. A fourth independently scraped copy (node 4129) confirms the wording; no additional dating information.