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TANG A TOWN. 



to the trouble of fetching the pure element. The 

 ' Kiboko ' is found in small numbers at the em- 

 bouchures of these islands, and often within a few 

 yards of where the boys bathed. I defer an ac- 

 count of our sport till we meet that unamiable 

 pachyderm upon the Panga-ni river. 



Like all the towns of the ' Mrima ' proper, 

 which here, I have said, begins, Tanga is a 

 patch of thatched pent-roofed huts, built upon a 

 bank overlooking the sea in a straggling grove 

 of cocoa and calabash. The population is laid 

 down at 4000 to 5000 souls, including 20 Ban- 

 yans and 15 Baloch, with the customary con- 

 sumptive Jemadar. The citizens are chiefly 

 occupied with commerce, and they send twice a 

 year in May to June and in October to November, 

 after the Great and Little Rains, trading parties 

 to Chaga and Umasai. At such times they find 

 on the way an abundance of water : the land, 

 however, supplies no food. Prom Tanga to 

 Mhina-ni (the place of Mhina, Henna, or the P.N. 

 of man, in Herr Petermann's Map ' Mikihani,' 

 and in Mr "Wakefield Mihinani), on the Upper 

 Panga-ni river, passing between Mbaramo and 

 Pare, are 13 marches : here the road divides, one 

 branch leading northward to Chaga, the other 

 westward across the river to the Wamasai's 



