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UKAMBA-NI. 



visited by Dr Krapf in 1849, and thence they dis- 

 persed through Ukamba-ni and Kikuyu, its north- 

 western province, to purchase ivory. The latter 

 article sold per Earsalah (35 lbs.) for 88 cubits 

 of cotton cloth, probably worth at Zanzibar 11 

 German crowns and a small merchant could 

 thus afford to being back from 1400 to 1500 lbs. 

 I wrote down a list of their marches^ and 



^ The route which follows seems to agree, as far as it goes, 

 with the Eev. Mr Wakefield's No. 3, from Mombasah to Dhai- 

 cho. I have not changed my notes, which still appear in my 

 diary of 1857. 



t. Mombasah via Mkupa to Rabai : 1 full day. 



2. Kitakakai in the plains of the Wakamba : 1 day. 



3. Mtu 'Ndogoni (M'tu Anggoni of Capt. Guillain ?) : 



1 day. 



4. "Wamamba of the Doruma : 1 day. 



5. Kisima (little well), amongst high hills, with a small 

 reservoir : 1^ day. This appears to be the Ngurunga za 

 Kimiri and Ngurunga za Mlala of Capt. Guillain, -and the 

 Gurungani of Mr Wakefield). 



6. Dayda (Tayta, the Taveta of Capt. Guillain, which Mr 

 Wakefield makes a corruption of a Kikwavi word, ' Ndoveta') : 



2 days (1 long and 1 short). 



7. Ndi, a place infamous for thieves : 1\ day. 



8. The Chago (Zavo) or Tsavo river: \\ day. (Captain 

 Guillain has a village, Segao.) 



9. Mtitowandei : IJ day. 



10. Kikumbulu, or country on the southern frontier of 

 Ukamba: 1 day. 



11. The Adi (Sabaki or Sabbak) river, which disembogues 

 itself north of Melinde, unfordable after rains : 1 J day. 



12. The Tiwa river in Tata : 1 day. 



13. Nzau, the land of tobacco : 1^ day. 



