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UTONDWE. 



Wadoe have of late years been driven away from 

 their ancient seats by the Wamasai, and like the 

 Waboni, they have occupied the lands on the 

 north bank of the Adi or Sabaki river. The 

 Wakamba, again, have been expelled, and the 

 Wazeramo, a fierce and unmanageable tribe, has 

 now transferred itself to the interior. The point 

 or headland bounding the bay southwards, and 

 giving a name to the little maritime province 

 Avhose southern limit is Wliindc (Uende of M. 

 Uebmann), is still known as Utondwe, and is said 

 to show ruins of habitations. Thus Watondwi, 

 which Mr Cooley translates ' picking-grounds,' 

 i. e. places where shell-fish are gathered, w^ould 

 mean the people of Utondwe. Nothing can be 

 more misleading than such expressions as 'the 

 kingdom of Atondo,' used by Do Couto and 

 others. These royalties are mere districts ruled 

 by petty headmen, of which each port-village 

 has one, potent within their own bounds or 

 palisades, but powerless a mile beyond them. 

 They correspond with the River Kings and Hill 

 Kings of Guinea, the ridiculous King Jacks and 

 King Boys of the Western Coast — both degraded 



may have been, tlie Wadoe seem to have adopted cauuibalisia 

 of late years, iu terrorem. So Tarik, the Arab invader of Spain, 

 when fighting his way between Boetis and the Tagus, ordered 

 his men to cook (but not to eat) the flesh of slain Christiana. 



