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THROUGH JUNGLE AND DESERT 



CHAP. 



Teita people. These Teita people had for years been 

 a thorn in the side of travellers passing through their 

 country. A missionary had been stationed among 

 them five or six years, but he had been unable in 

 any way to soften their hard and worthless natures. 



Ramazan and Mgundu 



When I passed through Teita on my former jour- 

 ney to Kilimanjiro, I met a party of ivory traders 

 who had just been robbed by these people. They 

 inhabit a range of mountains called Bura, and are 

 perhaps 10,000 in number. They possess a few flocks 



