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tain of the * Kafir ' sub-tribes : living upon the 

 produce of their herds and by the chase and 

 foray, they are the constant terror of their neigh- 

 bours. Above them rank the semi-pastoral, as 

 the Wakamba, who, though without building 

 fixed abodes, make their women cultivate the 

 ground : these clans indulge in occasional or pe- 

 riodical raids and feuds. The first step towards 

 civilization, agriculture, has been definitively 

 taken by the Wanyika, the Wasumbara, the 

 Wanyamwezi, and other tribes living between 

 the coast and the inland lakes : this third order 

 is usually peaceful with travellers, but thievish 

 and fond of intestine broils. 



Eut a few years ago the Wakwafi,^ who in 



1 Dr Krapf s ' Vocabulary of the Engtituk Eloikob ' ( Wak- 

 wafi), Tubingen, 1854. The author, a far better ethnologist 

 than linguist, made the Wakwafi tribe extend from N. Lat. 

 2° to S. Lat. 4^ and in breadth from T to 8°. He derives the 

 racial name from Loi or Eloi (' those,' plural of Oloi), and G-ob 

 or Kob (country) ' those in or of the country ' ; the word has 

 been corrupted by the Wakamba to Mukabi, and by the Wa- 

 sawahili to Mukafi and Mkwafi, in the plural, Wakwafi. Late 

 reports represent the fact that the Wamasai tribe, after the 

 fashion of all Inner Africa, is struggling to obtain a settlement 

 upon the coast, where it can trade direct with Europeans, and 

 has actually succeeded in driving the Waboni from the southern 

 bank of the Adi or Sabaki river : thence its progress to Me- 

 linde and the seashore is easy and sure. I regret to state that 

 the valuable papers by Herr Eichard Brenner (Mittheilungen, 

 &c., Dr A. Petermann, 18G8) have not been translated into 



