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the wretched desolate out-station. Commanding, 

 however, the main road to Usumbara, Chogwe 

 affords opportunity for an occasional something 

 in the lootinsr line — which is a consideration. 



A stiff snake-fence surrounds the hill-crest 

 and defends the cajan penthouses of the Bashi 

 Buzuks : the only works are two platforms for 

 matchlock-men planted on high poles like the 

 Maychan of Hindostan and the Mintar of Syria. 

 The Washenzi savages sometimes creep up at 

 night, shoot a few arrows into the huts, set fire to 

 the matting with the spicula ignita, and after 

 other such amenities, hurriedly levant. The 

 Wazegura, though fighting with one another, did 

 not when we visited the place molest the Baloch. 

 To the North and West of Chogwe rises a con- 

 tinuous range, the outKers of Usumbara : about 

 15 miles S. Westward (233° 15') in the plains of 

 the Wazegm'a beyond the river is a succession of 

 detached hills of which the most remarkable, 

 Tongwe Mwanapiro, in our charts called Genda- 

 genda, may be seen from Zanzibar. Here rules 

 one Mwere, a chief hostile to the mercenaries, 

 who boast that if they numbered 50 they could 

 overrun and plunder the whole land : the Asiatics, 

 not caring to soil their liands vrith negro blood, 

 make their slaves fight his men even as the in- 



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