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trading expeditions of their own they are keen and clever ; in 

 their villages they are a merry-making set. As Ruga Ruga 

 or forest men, the Wanyamwezi are unscrupulous and bold; in 

 Ukonongo and Ukawendi they are hunters ; in Usukuma they 

 are drovers and iron-smelters; in Lunda they are energetic 

 searchers for ivory ; on the coast they are a wondering, awe- 

 struck people." 



These are the people in whose middle province Mr. Stanley 

 took up his quarters the 21st of June, 1871. "Unyanyembe 

 is the great Bandari or meeting-place of merchants, and point 

 of departure for caravans, which thence radiate into the interior 

 of central intertropical Africa. Here the Arab merchant from 

 Zanzibar meets his compatriot returning from the Tanganyika 

 lake and from Uruwwa. Northwards, well-travelled lines di- 

 verge to the Nyanza lake, and the powerful kingdoms of Kara- 

 gwah, Uganda, and Unyoro ; from the south, Urori and Ubena, 

 Usanga and Usenga, send their ivory and slaves ; and from the 

 southwest, the Rukwa "Water, K'hokoro, Ufipa, and Marungu 

 must barter their valuables for cotton, wires, and beads." 



"This province was colonized," according to Burton, "about 

 1852, when the Arabs, who had been settled some years in a 

 district of Usukuma, having become involved in one of the 

 native wars were compelled to change their home. Snay bin 

 Amir and Musa Mzuri, the Indian, settled at Kazeh, then a 

 desert; built houses, sunk wells, and converted it into a popu- 

 lous place." 



It is well to remark, that the reader may not be confused by 

 the names which seem to be used interchangeably with Unyan- 

 yembe, that this district is not properly a town, but a district 

 containing a number of villages all very near each other, where 

 the Arabs have their great tembe, surrounded by the humbler 

 abodes of their servants and dependents, and lead lives of 

 comfort and even splendor, and take great pride in welcoming 

 travellers with astonishing display. When Mr. Stanley came 

 on the ground he was received with great cordiality by Sayd 

 bin Salim, whom favoring fortune had favored, since the time of 

 Burton and Speke's visit, from the station of servant to wealth 

 and prominence. Sayd bin Salim had his spacious tembe in 

 Kwikuru, the capital village of the province. 



