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THE WA8EGEJU. 



trade with the coast-savages, and manufacture, 

 from imported iron, hillhooks and hard wares for 

 the Wasegeju. This tribe, once powerful, now 

 uninfluential, preserves a tradition that when 

 expelled with the Wasawahili from Shungaya by 

 the Gallas, it migrated to the River Ozi or Dana 

 (Zana), to the Bay of Kilifi, and finally to Wanga 

 and Tanga. The dialect, they say, is similar to 



erally dividing it and sleeping in a jungle. Water is found 

 flowing from a hill. 



7. Kisiwa-ni in Pare : 1 day jungle march. 



8. Same, at end of Pare : 1 day of jungle. 



9. The Upo-ni river in the Wakwafi country, where rob- 

 bers are feared : men sleeping in the jungle 2 days. 



10. The Eufu, or Upper Panga-ni river, whose banks are 

 here woody, and whose crocodile-haunted waters must be 

 crossed in boats : 2 days. Here is the Mhina-ni station. 



The Chaga road does not cross the stream, but runs north- 

 ward with the following stages, which are not mentioned by 

 Mr Wakefield. 



1. Mhina-ni to Arusha, a populous agricultural country : 1 

 day. 



2. Kiboko-ni on left bank of Panga-ni river : 1 day of 

 desert march. 



3. Kahe Water of the Wakahe people: 1 long day, generally 

 made 2, the people sleeping in the jungle. 



4. Chaga : 1 to 2 days under similar circumstances ; water, 

 however, is found at night. 



The caravans are of course armed and ready to fight : they 

 march from sunrise to 11 a.m., and from mid afternoon to sunset 

 — sometimes a forced march compels them to walk all day. The 

 porters carry about IJ Farsaleh. These details serve to prove 

 that there are many points by which the European traveller 

 can more or less safely enter the interior. 



