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INLAND RUINS. 



SO adventurous would not confine themselves to 

 the seaboard. The Wasawahili speak of a ruined 

 castle on Njuira, a hill north of the Pangani 

 river, and placed by M. E^ebmann 160 miles from 

 the ocean. At Chaga, a district west of Mombasah, 

 whose apex is the well-known and much-vexed 

 Kilima-njaro or Kilima-ngao, stone walls, a breast- 

 work for cannon, and an image of a long-haired 

 woman seated upon a chair and - holding a child, 

 are reported still to remain. The Wanyika, or 

 ' Desert people ' of the Mombasah E;ange, have 

 preserved in their Kayas, or strongholds near 

 Rabai Mku, certain images which they declare 

 came from the west. According to Dr Krapf, 

 these statuettes, called Kisukas, or little devils, are 

 carried in war processions to encourage the com- 

 batants. No European has ever seen this ' great 

 medicine,' nor has any Chief ever dared even to 

 propose showing them to the mission : whenever a 

 European evinced more pertinacity than was 

 pleasing, he found the bushes upon his path brist- 

 ling with bow and spear, and capped by the 

 woolly mops of the sable Roderick Dhu's clans- 

 men. 



* And every tuft of broom gave life 

 To nigger warrior armed for strife.' 



Iconolatry is unknown to these tribes, and the 



