THE WADIGO. 



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' Sheemba Range of Hills, about 1500 feet bigh ' 

 — bere and tbere broken by tall blue cones. 

 After 1 b. 30 min. we sighted Wanga Bandar, 

 where tbe land was smoking ; tbis place has 

 rarely tbe honour of appearing in maps. Tbe 

 environs belong to the Wadigo, amongst whom 

 Said bin Salim lost a slave-girl : she had gone on 

 leave of absence to her tribe, and though she 

 never returned, he received from her an annual 

 remittance of a dollar. These people, who are 

 divided into half-a-dozen clans, occupy a fine 

 high country which extends westward to Usum- 

 bara : they dwell in large villages, fenced to 

 keep out the Wamasai, and they are agricultur- 

 ists, fond of Jete, or public markets, at which they 

 dispose of their grain to the coast-traders. Those 

 whom we saw were poor-looking men : their 

 bows were well turned and bent, with brass knobs 

 and strings of cowgut ; the notched and neatly 

 feathered arrows had triangular iron piles. The 

 women, who veiled the bosom, were remarkably 

 plain, and apparently had never seen a European. 

 These Wadigo with their southern neighbours, 

 the Wasegeju, are porters of the inland traffic. 

 Caravans, if they may so be called, numbering 

 sometimes a hundred men, slaves included, set 

 out at the beginning of the rains in March or 



