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LAKE ROUTES. 



had proposed a choice of three several routes. 

 The first was through Dshaga (Chaga), and the 

 lands of the Wamasai. It numbered 59 days, 

 over level land, though studded with many 

 isolated hills and mountains, and it traded to the 

 Wanyamwezi, ' of the race of Wazambiro,' pro- 

 bably the Wafioma of the Usambiro district, 

 near Karagwah, The middle caravan was re- 

 ported to start 6 from Bagamoyo and Mboamaji 

 to Uniamesi.' The general features of the coun- 

 try, the distances, and even the position of Ujiji, 

 were remarkably well laid down. The ' Stadt 

 Ujiji,' inhabited partly by Arabians, partly by 

 Wahas (Wahhas), of course, did not exist : the 

 saline stream of the Wapogo, 1 and the people, 

 whose teeth became yellow by drinking of 

 another water, were evidently the creations of 

 some lively negro's fancy. The 4 third or south- 

 ern caravan line,' set out from Kilwa, and after 

 200 miles struck the ' Niasa or Niandsha ' Lake. 



1 This salt stream might have been some confusion with 

 the salt Lake Naivasha or Balibali, in about S. lat. 1° 40', first 

 laid down by the Eev. Thomas Wakefield, ' Eoutes of Native 

 Caravans from the Coast to the Interior of Eastern Africa, 

 chiefly from information given by Sadi bin Ahedi, a native of 

 a district near Gazi (Gasi ?), in Udigo, a little north of Zan- 

 zibar ' (pp. 303—339, Journal of the Koyal Geographical 

 Society, vol. xl. 1870). Of this very valuable paper I shall 

 have more to say in Vol. II. 



