KING KIMWERE. 



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Panga-m stream. His father, Shubugali, conquered 

 Bondei and pushed the Usumbara frontier from 

 Pare Eastward to the sea and from Msihi (in M. 

 Rebmann Emsihi Mdi), a mountain two days' 

 march East of Euga, to the Panga-ni river and 

 the Indian Ocean. He left Usumbara to Kim- 

 were, Bumburri and Meringa-mountainto younger 

 sons, and Msihi to a favourite daughter : this 

 division of his dominions natm^ally caused lasting 

 bloodshed amongst his successors. Kimwere, in 

 youth a warrior of fame, ranked highest in the 

 triumvhate of mountain-kings, the others being 

 B'ana Bongwa of Chaga and B'ana Kizungu of 

 Ukwafi. In age he has lost ground. His sister's 

 sons, the chiefs of Bungu in Msihi, rebelled, 

 destroyed his hosts by rolling down stones ; they 

 were reduced, and sent to the slave market, only 

 by the arms of 25 Baloch. The Wazegura, I have 

 said, are also troublesome neighbours. Kimwere 

 has a body of 400 musketeers whom he calls his 

 Waengrezi or Enghshmen : they are dispersed 

 amongst the villages, for now the oryx-horn is 

 silent and the beacon is never extinguished upon 

 the mountain-passes. This ' Lion of the Lord ' 

 asserts present kinghood in one point only : he 

 has some 300 wives, each surrounded by slaves and 

 portioned with a hut and a plantation. His little 



