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that is, a " connection with a person belonging to 

 another nation, so that they reside at each other's houses 

 when visiting the place, and make mutual presents." 

 The compulsory guest amongst the Arabs of Zanzibar 

 and the Somal is called " Nezil." 



At Ujiji terminates, after twelve stages, which native 

 caravans generally finish in a fortnight, all halts in- 

 cluded, the transit of the fifth region. The traveller 

 has now accomplished a total number of 85 long, or 

 100 short stages, which, with necessary rests, but 

 excluding detentions and long halts, occupy 150 days. 

 The direct longitudinal distance from the coast is 540 

 geo. miles, which the sinuosities of the road prolong to 

 955, or in round numbers 950 statute miles. The number 

 of days expended by the Expedition in actual marching 

 was 100, of hours 420, which gives a rate of 2*27 miles 

 per hour. The total time was seven and a-half months, 

 from the 27th June, 1857, to the 18th February, 1858; 

 thus the number of the halts exceeded by one-third the 

 number of the marches. In practice Arab caravans 

 seldom arrive at the Tanganyika, for reasons before 

 alluded to, under a total period of six months. Those 

 lightly laden may make Unyanyembe in between two 

 and a-half and three months, and from Unyanyembe 

 Ujiji in twenty-five stages, which would reduce their 

 journey to four months. 



Dapper ( 1 Beschryving van Afrika,' Amst. 1671) 

 asserts that the " blacks of Pombo, i. e. the Pombeiros, 

 or native travellers of W. Africa, when asked re- 

 specting the distance of the lake, say that it is at 

 least a sixty days' journey, going constantly east- 

 wards." But the total breadth of the continent 

 between Mbuamaji and Loanda being, in round num- 

 bers, 1560 geographical miles, this estimate would give 



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