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basah, and sending a young son of the defunct 

 Sultan to Melinde, they gave up to it a city, 

 which for a whole century had been its deadly 

 enemy. The name ' Mosseguaies, very barbarous/ 

 appears in the map of John Senex (1712). 

 The tribe is mentioned by Dr Krapf ('Wase- 

 gedshu' Church Missionary Intelligencer of 

 1849, p. 86), and by Mr Wakefield (Wasegeju, 

 p. 212). 



We landed on the morning of Jan. 27, and 

 were received with peculiar cordiality. In the 

 absence of the Arab Governor, Mohammed bin 

 Ali, we were met upon the seashore by Khalfan bin 

 Abdillah, Hammed bin Abdillah, and the head- 

 man Kibaya Mchanga, with sundry Diwans and 

 Wasawihili notables ; by the Jemadar, with his 

 Baloch, and by Miyan Sahib, a daft old Hindu, 

 who here collects the customs. They conducted 

 us up the bank to the hut formerly tenanted by 

 M. Erhardt, seated us on chairs facing couches ; 

 brought coffee, fruit, and milk, with a goat, 

 by way of welcome, and succeeded in winning 

 our hearts. That day was spent in inquiries 

 about the commerce and geography of the in- 

 terior, and in listening to wild tales concerning 

 the ^thiopic Olympus, the Sierra Nevada of 

 Eastern Africa, which Jupiter Cooley decreed to 



