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PANGA-NL 



half-a-dozen white Kiosks and Serais, minarets 

 and latticed summer villas, it would almost rival 

 that gem of creation, the Bosphorus. 



Panga-ni^ 'in the hole,' or ' between the high- 

 lands,' as was said of the River Lee, and its 

 smaller neighbour, Kumba, hug the left or north- 

 ern bank of its river : the site is a flat Maremma 

 bounded by the sea and by a hill range, ten or 

 eleven miles distant. Opposite are Mbweni and 

 Mzimo Mpia, small villages built under tall bluffs 

 of yellow sandstone, precipitous and impenetrably 

 covered with wild growth. The stream which 

 separates these rival pairs of settlements may be 

 200 yards broad : the mouth has an ugly line of 

 bar-breakers, awash at low tide ; the only fair- 

 way course is a narrow channel to the south, 

 and the entrance is intricate, with reef and 

 shoal. This in Capt. Owen's time was some 12 

 feet deep : now it it is reduced to seven or eight : 

 although a report had been spread that the 

 ' Shah Allum ' had crossed it, nothing but country 

 craft can safely enter, as some of our enterprising 

 compatriots have discovered, to their cost. Pan- 

 ga-ni Bay is shown to the mariner by its ' ver- 



^ The Arabs, who have no P, must change it to an F, e.g. 

 Fanga-ni and Fagazi for Pagazi, a porter. The latter word is 

 ridiculously enough turned into a verb, e.g. ' ba-yatafaggazu, 

 ' they act carriers.' 



