THE TANGANYIKA BASIN. 



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very favourably impressed most people, and to 

 have hidden from them a few obvious facts which 

 are of great importance. 



One of these is that Arab or Mussulman life 



Fig. 40. — Suahili Women. 



means slavery, and involves the ruin, morally, 

 mentally, and physically of every native race with 

 which it has been brought into close connection. 

 Like all Mohammedan peoples, a native race con- 



