CHAPTER TV. 



THE PEOPLE OE MOMBASAH. THE WANTIKA TRIBE. 

 Static benefida carinis. — Yieoil. 



Tn 18M Dr Krapf allowed the population of 

 Mombasah town, without its dependencies, to be 

 8000 to 10,000. In 1846 M. GuiUain reduced it 

 to 2500 or 3000 souls, not including a garrison 

 of 250 men, but including 40 families of Arabs 

 (220 to 230 souls), and 50 Banyans and Hindo- 

 stani Moslems. In 1857 I was assured that it 

 contained 8000 to 9000 souls, thus distributed : 

 Arabs, about 350 ; 300 Baloch and other merce- 

 naries, 50 Bhattias, 25 to 30 Indian Moslems, 

 the rest being Wasawahili and the slave races. 

 The Wasawahili are distributed into two great 

 groups. Older and consequently nobler, though 



