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authority of Zanzibar; and, finally, that white 

 men would want letters from the Wall of Kilwa, 

 addressed to three Diwans in the Eufiji village 

 B'anas Hasi, Kangayya and Puriyya, with two 

 up-country sultans, Monga and Dumbo. 



The next feature was the low islet of Chole, 

 rich in cattle and hippos : here the Mtepe- 

 craft is superiorly made, as are also the Chinese- 

 like dish covers (Kawa) of dyed and plaited 

 straw. It was followed by the comparatively 

 large and inhabited island, Songo-Songo — the 

 Songa-Songa of M. Eebmann. Here I heard one 

 of the men use a Persian phrase with Kisawahili 

 termination — ' Tumbak nisti' (for nist), there is 

 no tobacco : it reminded me of a Kentish woman 

 threatening to ' frap ' her child. Thence about 

 noon (Eeb. 15) we sighted Kilwa Kivinjya. It 

 lies at bottom of a broad shallow bay broken by 

 juttings from the land, and backed by high roll- 

 ing ground, cleared for mashamba and orange or- 

 chards. The mangrove-belted sea ebbs about half 

 a mile, and flows right up to the buildings : we ran 

 close in, and before the tide was out we propped 

 ourselves, like our neighbours, with strong poles. 



Captain Owen learned, considerably to his 

 mortification, that there were two Kilwas — he 

 might have said half-a-dozen. The name, by the 



