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viously described as almost identical in development 

 and condition, but somewhat inferior in energy and 

 civilisation. Little need be said of the Wavinza, who 

 appear to unite the bad qualities of both the Wanyam- 

 wezi and the UjijL They are a dark, meagre, and ill- 

 looking tribe ; poorly clad in skin aprons and kilts. 

 They keep off insects by inserting the chauri, or fly-flap, 

 into the waistband of their kilts : and at a distance they 

 present, like the Hottentots, the appearance of a race 

 with tails. Their arms are spears, bows, and arrows ; 

 and they use, unlike their neighbours, wicker-work 

 shields six feet long by two in breadth. Their chiefs 

 are of the Watosi race, hence every stranger who meets 

 with their approbation is called, in compliment, Mtosi. 

 They will admit strangers into their villages, dirty 

 clumps of beehive huts ; but they refuse to provide 

 them with lodging. Merchants with valuable outfits 

 prefer the jungle, and wait patiently for provisions 

 brought in baskets from the settlements. The Wavinza 

 seldom muster courage to attack a caravan, but strag- 

 glers are in imminent danger of being cut off by them. 

 Their country is rich in cattle and poultry, grain 

 and vegetables. Bhang grows everywhere near the 

 settlements, and they indulge themselves in it immo- 

 derately. 



The Watuta — a word of fear in these regions — are a 

 tribe of robbers originally settled upon the southern 

 extremity of the Tanganyika Lake, After plundering 

 the lands of Marungu and Ufipa, where they almost 

 annihilated the cattle, the Watuta, rounding the eastern 

 side of the Lake, migrated northwards. Some years ago 

 they were called in by Ironga, the late Sultan of U'ungu, 

 to assist him against Mui' Gumbi, the powerful chief of 

 the Warori. The latter were defeated, after obstinate 



