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ear, and being awkwardly killed, caused for 6 to 7 

 months deafness and suppuration : it acted, how- 

 ever, as a counter-irritant, and to a certain ex- 

 tent gave him back his sight. My companion 

 afterwards complained loudly of being unable to 

 accompany Hamid to the TTruwwa^ district, where 

 merchants traded for ivory and copper: we 

 should thus have spanned half the Continent, 

 and our line could easilv have been connected 

 with Dr Livingstone's route through Angola. 

 As, however, on that journey Hamid and all his 

 slaves were murdered, and their property was 

 plundered by the people, my companion had 

 not much to regret. 



Hamid, moreover, gave information which 

 made us wild to reach the upper end of the Tan- 

 ganyika Lake. He had been so near its northern 

 head that he had felt the outward drift of the 



^ Air Coolev (p. 13, Memoir of the Lake Eegions of East 

 Afirica renewed) declares that ' the name ^ariia is the Sawa- 

 hilj equivalent of Milua, and that the Miluana, as the Awembe 

 are also called, signifies mixed or half-bred Miliia ; ' he more- 

 over identifies them with the * Alunda, who, with the Arungo, 

 including apparently the "W'akatata or TVakatanea, are all 

 Wat'hembwe or subjects of the Cazembe.' He finds that I 

 have written Uruwwa, ' with greater show of oricjinality and 

 rigorous Arabism.' the fact being that I wrote down what the 

 Arabs told me. Col. J. A. Grant (AtheUcTum, April 9, 1S70) 

 identifies Uruwwa with Dr Livingstone's Eua, where tribes 

 live ' in under-ground houses said to be 30 miles long/ 



