THE WASEGEJU. 



119 



that of the Pokomo of the Dana, hence pro- 

 bably ]Mr Giiillain (i. 402) declares them to have 

 been incliorens of the coast about Melinde. Still 

 a violent, warlike, and furious brood, as described 

 by Do Couto (Decad. xi. chap, xxi.), they hunt 

 the Bondei Hills for slaves, and of late years, 

 havinsr sundrv blood-feuds with their neis^hbours 

 the TTadigo, they have sought the protection of 

 King Kimwere and of the Wazegura race south 

 of the Panga-ni river. Tanga has for some time 

 since been spared the mortification of the TTa- 

 masai, who in this vicinity have driven and 

 harried many a herd. I here saw two of their 

 women, veritable human Cynocephali, fiat-head- 

 ed, with receding brows a la Robespierre, eyes 

 close together, long low noses with open nostrils, 

 projecting muzzles, and ears in strips. The land 

 is now, comparatively speaking, thickly inhabit- 

 ed, and dotted with fiourishing villages, ]\Ivo-ni, 

 Ambo-ni, Janja-ni, and others. 



The only modern tribe which figures in the 

 history of the coast is the "Wasegeju. TTe first 

 read of them in 1589, when the Zimba or 

 Wazimba Kafirs, who had devastated the de- 

 pendencies of Tete and Rios de Sena, on the 

 Zambeze, swarmed northwards, massacring, and, 

 it is said, devouring, all who opposed them 



