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quarters of Sultan Sembodja, of Usambara, he had sent them 

 there ; moreover, soon after his arrival at Korogwe, Count 

 Teleki, with a view to lessening the difficulties of transit, had 

 sent a number of loads up-stream in advance of the main body. 

 So we had to part again, the Count going to Sultan Sembodja's, 

 whilst I was to follow the stream to Masai ; Mikocheni, a well- 

 known camping- place on the Pangani, being decided on as our 

 rendezvous. 



On March 1, then, Count Teleki started with eighty men 

 to skirt along the Usambara highlands to Masinde. I indulged 

 myself and my men in a day's rest — necessary, too, for reorgan- 

 ising the caravan — and the next morning I took leave of the 

 friendly gentlemen of the station, near to which such an unlucky 

 incident had occurred. The station, though on a hill, is sur- 

 rounded by swampy meadows, and cannot, I fancy, be very 

 healthy. I noted in the course of this trip that nearly all the 

 stations of the German East African Company are in similar 

 situations. Probably the luxuriant vegetation surrounding them 

 is the attraction, 



So far we had been in districts occupied by Washenzi, 

 but at the village of Kwa Mgumi begins the Usegua country, 

 which, especially on the banks of the Pangani, forming its 

 northern boundary, is thickly peopled. On this river live the 

 Wasegua — that is to say, the natives of Usegua, a single inhabi- 

 tant being M-segua, whilst the language spoken is Ki-segua. M 

 and Wa are very usual prefixes to denote numbers in all Bantu 

 dialects, whilst Ki often serves to indicate the language. For 

 instance, we have U-ganda, M-ganda, and Ki-ganda; Ta-veta, 

 M-taveta, Wa-taveta, and Ki-taveta. The Wasegua on the 

 Pangani are also sometimes spoken of as the Waruvu, or 

 dwellers on the river, Euvu, as we have already seen, meaning 

 the river. Most of their villages are on islands in the river, 

 which gives them a very strong position. I suppose there are 



