A 'coal black negro' claiming to be a Hebrew, reported stranded in Newark, New Jersey, saying he came from Nubia (1,500 miles south of Cairo, Egypt) two months earlier seeking work copying Hebrew scriptures for synagogue use; unable to speak English, his father said to be a rabbi in Nubia, with a wife and four children still there. Possibly, but not confidently, the same itinerant man reported elsewhere in the American press of this period under the Waltzkowitz/Wolskowicy/Volskovitz/Valskabomann/Muskowitz spellings - kept as a distinct person because neither the name nor the specific circumstances (a stranded scribe, not a travelling showman) confirm the connection.