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KILWA ISLAND. 



crosses ' Kitarika/ a ridge of highland, to which 

 extend the plantations of the Shirazi Wasa- 

 wahili, who are here mixed with the Wamachinga 

 trihe. 



We found the shallow waters oif the Island 

 shore lined with "Wigos, weeds, and mangroves, 

 in which sandy hreaks represented the old 

 Bandars or ports. Southwards, at the hottom 

 of the hay, appeared the islet of Sanje Kati, and 

 opposite lay the Mlango, or gate where the 

 depth diminishes from 80 to 6 fathoms, and 

 leads to Sanje Majoma. This may he the Changa 

 of the Kilwa Chronicle, whose ' King ' Matata 

 Mandelima expelled in early days Daud, the 

 Sultan of Kilwa. We then landed again at a 

 gap in the verdure, and ascending a slope of 

 coralline rock, smooth near the water and rough 

 ahove, we reached the sandy shore-line, and 

 thence, turning south through trees and grass, 

 we came upon the ruins. 



The most remarkahle are the remnants 



p. 44). This Eufuma is the Livuma (or ' gut ' ) of Mr Cooley 

 (Geography, &c., p. 15). What can he mean by ' going from 

 Kilwa to Jao (Uhyao), the traveller reaches the Livuma in 

 25 to 30 days ' ? There is hardly a bee-line of 2° between 

 Kilwa and the mouth of the Rufuma. And what may be 

 * Lukelingo, the capital of lao ' ? — any relation to the ' town 

 Zanganica ' ? It is probably the Lukeringo district and 

 stream falling into the eastern waters of the Nyassa Lake. 



