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visited. The Galla are rich, but the M'Kuafy are poor. The latter 

 do not come to market ; and they once robbed his town ; when, 

 being intercepted on their return, they did not succeed in carrying 

 off the booty. He had once visited a place called ' Rombo,' and saw 

 at a distance a town belonging to the Mussai; who are bad people, 

 and are like the M'Kuafy." 



A detached tribe of Negroes are found upon the African coast 

 north of the Wanika, in the delta of the Juba. The Snltan of Patta 

 termed them, Pokomo, and also ' Hadem ;' and he spoke of them as 

 " rather a good sort of people, who will pull a boat up the Oozy, 

 being relieved at each town by a fresh set of hands. They live on 

 one side of the river, the other side belonofinCT to the Galla. Boats 

 ascend the Oozy, which is excessively winding, for twenty-five days, 

 and no more ; and he thought that the Juba must be the same river, 

 since persons proceeding from the mouth of each channel, meet to- 

 gether." 



The Chaga dwell in the Interior, to the southwest of the Wanika, 

 and on the upper part of the Pungany River. A Comoro man stated, 

 that he " was fifteen days in reaching the country of the Chaga, 

 journeying towards the setting sun. The party he accompanied, was 

 commanded by a Makamba man, who had often conducted similar 

 expeditions, and who knew all the languages on the route. Some 

 Soahili were of the party, but no Arabs. The object in view, was, to 

 procure ivory, and not slaves ; and some M'Kuafy and Wakamba 

 were seen, who were on the same errand. The Chaga have plenty 

 of bananas, yams, sugar-cane, Indian corn, and other cultivated plants. 

 They are bad people, all the same as slaves; black and like Negroes; 

 while the Mussai are like Arabs. The Mussai," if I understood him 

 aright, "look upon the Chaga in the light of slaves. But the two 

 nations circumcise in the same peculiar manner." All accounts of 

 the Chaga, agree in representing them to be an agricultural and a 

 Negro nation. Individuals were said to be common at Zanzibar, but 

 I did not succeed in finding any. 



In all my inquiries respecting the people of Eastern Africa, I 

 could not hear of pastoral Negroes, nor of Ethiopian cultivators : but 

 there are some undetermined tribes holding an intermediate position 

 along the borders of the cultival)le soil, who may offer trifling excep- 



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