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In this section the distances were miscalculated, 

 and except the Wafipa and the Waberube, the 

 tribes were incorrectly named and placed. 



In his plan for exploring the Great Lake, and 

 laid before the Royal Geographical Society in 

 1854, M. Erhardt proposed to land at Kilwa, 

 where he had touched with Dr Krapf ; to collect 

 a party of Wasawahili, and with an outfit of 

 $300 to march into the continent. This might 

 have been feasible in 1854 ; it was impossible in 

 1856. The sum mentioned was inadequate ; the 

 missionaries had spent as much upon a fort- 

 night's march from Pangani to Fuga. Slaves 

 are the only porters of the land, and the death of 

 Sayyid Said had then made the coast Arabs and 

 the Mrima people about Kilwa almost inde- 

 pendent of Zanzibar. My directions from home 

 were to follow, if possible, this line ; Lieut. 

 Christopher, I. N., however, who visited the 

 coast in 1843, more wisely advised explorers to 

 avoid the neighbourhood of Kilwa. Lieut. - 

 Colonel Hamerton, moreover, strongly objected 

 to our landing anywhere but under the guns of 

 Zanzibar, as it were. He informed me that the 

 Wangindo, a tribe settled behind Kilwa, had 

 lately murdered a native trader, at the instiga- 

 tion of those settled on the coast ; and that no- 



