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whose town and district is called Moembe, the town Pa- 

 moembe = Mamemba. 



I rest content with Kingoniango so far verifying the place 

 at which he arrived two months after we had discovered 

 Lake Nyassa. He deserved all the credit due to finding 

 the way thither, but he travelled as an Arab, and no one 

 suspected him to be anything else. Our visits have been 

 known far and wide, and great curiosity excited; but 

 Dr. Eoscher merits the praise only of preserving his incog- 

 nito at a distance from Kilwa : his is almost the only case 

 known of successfully assuming the Arab guise — Burck- 

 hardt is the exception. When Mr. Palgrave came to Muscat, 

 or a town in Oman where our political agent Col. Desborough 

 was stationed, he was introduced to that functionary by an 

 interpreter as Hajee Ali, &c. Col. Desborough replied, 

 " You are no Hajee Ali, nor anything else but Gifford Pal- 

 grave, with whom I was schoolfellow at the Charter House." 

 Col. Desborough said he knew him at once, from a peculiar 

 way of holding his head, and Palgrave begged him not to 

 disclose his real character to his interpreter, on whom, and 

 some others, he had been imposing. I was told this by 

 Mr. Dawes, a Lieutenant in the Indian navy, who accom- 

 panied Colonel Pelly in his visit to the Nejed, Eiad, &c, 

 and took observations for him. 



Tangare is the name of a rather handsome bean, which 

 possesses intoxicating qualities. To extract these it is boiled, 

 then peeled, and new water supplied : after a second and 

 third boiling it is pounded, and the meal taken to the river 

 and the water allowed to percolate through it several times. 

 Twice cooking still leaves the intoxicating quality; but if 

 eaten then it does not cause death : it is curious that the 

 natives do not use it expressly to produce intoxication. 

 When planted near a tree it grows all over it, and yields 

 abundantly : the skin of the pod is velvety, like our broad 

 beans. 



