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magic powder and planted in the ground before a village, suffices to ward ofp the 

 enemy. However, resort must often be had to charms of greater potency. When 

 a battle is pending the wizard flays a child, placing the bleeding victim on the 

 "war path," to be trampled by the warriors marching to victory. But a great 

 blow was given to the power of the magicians by the arrival of the European 

 missionaries, for they also are regarded as " medicine-men," and their potions are 

 held to be more efficacious than those of the natives. A rain-gauge placed by 

 them near a station on the shore of Lake Victoria had to be removed, in order not 

 to destroy the spells concocted by the wizards to bring down rain. 



The Sukuma country enjoys a certain commercial advantage, due to its position 



Fig. 27. — U-Kerewe and U-Sukuma. 

 Scale 1 : 1,500,000. 



30 Miles. 



on the route of the slave-dealers between U-Nyamezi and U-Ganda. Since the 

 days of Speke and Stanley it has been visited by several Europeans. The most 

 populous district is TJ-E.ima, near the " Jordans' Nullah " of Speke, and the most 

 frequented port is the village of Kagheyî (Kagei) on the left side of the lake, where 

 was launched Stanley's Lady Alice, followed soon after by the Daisy and the Eleanor. 

 The view towards the lake is interrupted by the hills of TJ-Kerewe, a large island 

 whose name has often been applied to the great inland sea itself. U-Kerewe, which 

 is almost entirely covered with forests, forms a separate state, whose capital, Bakindo, 

 lies near the east side on a creek well sheltered by islets from the winds. A 

 palisade of the trunks of trees in the centre of the town encloses the royal 

 hut, those of the king's wives, the granaries, and the shed where are deposited the 



