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merry men, I set out in the ' Mtope ' (the 

 Mud), a small Machua manned by the slaves of 

 Mr Banyan E>amji. E;unning before a fair 

 wind, and ' rushed ' by an occasional raffale, we 

 crossed in five hours the Manche that separates 

 Zanzibar from Sa'adani, a trading port on the 

 Continent, nearly parallel with the northern cape 

 of the Island. The settlement is not seen till 

 within the shortest distance, when the man- 

 groves disclose it. The landing-place is bad ; 

 if the water is out small craft must lie about 

 half-a-mile from the shore; at flood-tide they 

 round a small sandspit, and enter the shallow, 

 rushy Khor (bay), which passes the settlement. 

 Passengers then disembark in canoes. The site 

 of the village is frontier-land : to the north are 

 the Wazegura savages, and southward, behind 

 ' Utondwe,' lie the Wadoe, who are reported by 

 all to have learned cannibalism during their wars 

 with the Wakamba.^ I should say ' lay ' : these 



^ It has been remarked by Dr Beke (Transactions of tbe 

 Royal G-eograpliical Society, vol. xvii. p. 74), that hereabouts 

 is the position assigned by Ptolemy to his Anthropophagi, living 

 around the Barbaric Grulf, and by El Mas'udi to the men-eating 

 Zenj — a curious coincidence. I am convinced that all the ne- 

 gro tribes now settled upon the East and West coasts of Inter- 

 tropical Africa have migrated, or rather have gravitated, from 

 the interior within a few centuries, and that the process is still 

 in active operation. Whatever the Wamakua Meuschen-fresser 



