He has already been rumored to be everything from an ethiopian to the Second Coming of the Messiah.
"Border, Breed Nor Birth"
Dallas McCord Reynolds
It was the figure of a man in a sitting posture; which some said was the representation of Memnon the ethiopian: others maintained, that it was the statue of Phamenophis: and others again, that it related to Sesostris.
"A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume II. (of VI.)"
Jacob Bryant
The very day of our arrival at Massowah, efforts were made to engage messengers to proceed to the Abyssinian court and inform his ethiopian Majesty that officers had arrived at the coast with the answer to his letter to the Queen of England.
"A Narrative of Captivity in Abyssinia With Some Account of the Late Emperor Theodore, His Country and People"
Henry Blanc