THE MARKET. 



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Ptiver Mvo-ni (of Beliemoth), here called the 

 Zigi — two names in three miles, a truly African 

 fashion I Salted by the tide, it flows under banks 

 forty to fifty feet liio^h, crowned with calabash 

 and other jungle trees. Women were being 

 ferried oyer : in ecstasies of terror they buried 

 their faces between their knees till the moment 

 of danger had passed away. These sayages are 

 by no means a maritime race, they haye no 

 boats, they rarely fish, and being unable to s\^'im, 

 they are stopped by the narrowest stream unless 

 they can bridge it by felling a tree in the right 

 direction, as it is said the beayers do. 



Haying crossed the riyer, we trayersed plant- 

 ations of cocoas and plantains, and ascending a 

 steep hill, we foimd, after fiye miles of walking, 

 the market 'warm,' as Easterns say, upon the 

 seaward slope. All Tanga was there. The wild 

 people, Vasumbara and AYashenzi,^ T\^adigo and 

 Wasegeju, were clothed in greasy hides and 

 cotton wrappers of inyeterate grime. Eyery 

 man carried his bow and arrow, his knobstick 



1 The Moslems of the islands and the coast call all the pa- 

 gans TVashenzi, and the word is opposed to Mbaji — a Moslem 

 generally — and to AVazumba, the AVasawihili of the northern 

 region. On the continent it is, I have said, applied to a servile 

 or helot caste, originally from the S. West of the Panga-ni 

 river, and afterwards settled in Bondei. 



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