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The latter have elders, or Watwita, who represent them in the 
council of the e 
On the outside the houses appear like beehives, but the inside 
walls are perpendicular and some four feet high. From these 
walls springs the roof, the center of which is ten or twelve feet 
from the ground, but there is no center post, and the rafters are 
simply fastened by rings of cane from the center downwards, On 
the outside, grass is laid very thickly and made to reach the ground, 
The interior is kept scrupulously clean by the women, and order 
appears to prevail in the arrangement of everything. 
The trade of the country consists chiefly of ivory from Urua, 
Ubudjwe and other districts and in home-grown corn. Of late 
years the men have shown a disposition to travel, visiting Unyan- 
yembe and even Bagamoyo and Zanzibar, Some go as porters 
in Arab caravans and others on ventures of their own. 
Further interesting details are given concerning the domestic 
life, musical instruments, modes of burial and religious notions of 
the Waguha. 
At the meeting of the Berlin Geographical Society, held on 
March 5, 1881, it was announced that several letters had been 
received from Dr. E. unker, who at the commencement of 
ast year undertook at his own expense a second voyage to 
Africa, for the purpose of exploring those portions of Central 
Africa first made known to us by the travels of Dr. Schweinfurth. 
The most recent of these letters was dated from the Monbuttu 
country, September 1, 1880. After a lengthened sojourn at Mes- 
chera-el-Rek, on the banks of the Bahr-el-Gazal, Dr. Junker had 
5 territory of the Mangballa, a day’s journey north of the Welle. 
