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collected. Cattle-breeders contribute the first- 

 fruits of their flocks and herds ; elephant-hunters 

 offer every second tusk, and traders are mulcted 

 in a portion of their merchandise. Cultivators 

 annually pay 10 measures of grain; hence the 

 quantity exported from Tanga and Panga-ni to 

 Zanzibar and even to Arabia. The lion's share is 

 reserved for the Lion and his familv, the crumbs 

 are distributed amongst the councillors and the 

 corps of guards (Waengrezi). 



The ' headquarter village ' of TJsumbara is 

 Euga, situated in a cool healthy climate, nearly 

 4500 feet upon the sea-line. The town is a heap 

 of some 500 huts, containing, I was told, in round 

 numbers, 3000 souls.^ It is forbidden to foreigners 

 because the king's wives inhabit a part, and it 

 also shelters the chief magician-priests, in whose 

 ' lodges ' criminals may take sanctuary. The 

 place is completely defenceless and unwalled : 

 the tenements are the circular habitations, com- 



1 Mr Cooley (Inner Africa Laid Open, p. 75) calls in Vuga, 

 and gravely clironicles the valuable observation of ' Kliamis ' his 

 'intelligent Sawahili,' who made it three times as large as the 

 town of Zanzibar. He confounds (p. 63) with Dos Santos 

 (Hiotory of Eastern Ethiopia, iii. 1), through 8° of distance, 

 Karagwah or Karague with Gurague in Abyssinia, Gurague 

 meaning the left hand to one looking westward, and thus corre- 

 sponding with the Arabic El Sham (Syria or Damascus). We 

 also find (p. 55) Sadana for Sa'adani, and Wadoa for AYadoe. 



