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NAMES. 



ment, or the brain suffers from exclusive, excessive 

 obedience to the natural law, 'increase and 

 multiply ' and its consequent affections, is a 

 question still to be settled. Boys are sent to 

 school when aged seven, and finish their 

 Khitmah (perlection of the Koran) in one to 

 three years ; after this they are usually removed 

 to assist their fathers in the business of life. 



Upon the Island the Msawahili child receives 

 some corrupted Moslem name, as Taufiki (Taufik) 

 Muamadi (Mohammed), Tani (Usman), Shibu 

 (Nasib), Muhina (Muhinna), Usy (Ali), or 

 Hadi. Upon the coast the appellations are 

 mostly heathen : I may quote the following 

 from the Benu Kendij tribe — Bori, Chumi, 

 Kambi, Kangaya, Kirwasha, Mareka, Mkame, 

 Mkhokho, Mombe, or Mwambe, Mwere, Nun- 

 gu, Shangora, Shenkambi, Zingaji. The wilder 

 Wasawahili communities adopt very charac- 

 teristic compounds : such are Machuzi wa 

 Shimba (fish-soup), Mrima-khonde (mountain 

 plantation), 1 Mkata-Moyyo (cutter-out of heart), 

 Khiro-kota (treasure trove), Mchupio wa Keti 



1 Mr Cooley (Geog. 37) tells us that ' Conda, in Congoese 

 and also in Sawahili, means hill.' It certainly does not in 

 Zanzibar, where Konda is an adjective, lean or thin. Konde 

 means the fist (in Arabic %mmA> ^), and Khonde is applied to a 



Shamba or plantation. 



