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THE LAKE REGIONS OF CENTRAL AFRICA. 



greatness before coming here ? — and they hold an 

 answer in the negative to be a casus belli. 



Remain for consideration the people of Ubuha and 

 Uhha. The Wabuha is a small and insignificant tribe 

 bounded on the north by Uhha, and on the south by 

 the Malagarazi River : the total breadth is about three 

 marches ; the length, from the Rusugi stream of the 

 Wavinza to the frontiers of Ujiji and Ukaranga, is in 

 all a distance of four days. Their principal settlement 

 is Uyonwa. the district of Sultan Mariki : it is a mere 

 clearing in the jungle, with a few pauper huts dotting 

 fields of sweet potatoes. This harmless and oppressed 

 people will sell provisions, but though poor they are 

 particular upon the subject of beads, preferring coral 

 and ^blue to the exclusion of black and white. They 

 are a dark, curly-headed, and hard-favoured race : they 

 wear the shushah or top-knot on the poll, dress in 

 skins and tree-barks, ornament themselves with brass 

 and copper armlets, ivory disks, and beads, and are 

 never without their weapons, spears and assegais, sime 

 or daggers, and small battle-axes. Honourable women 

 wear tobes of red broadcloth and fillets of grass or fibre 

 confining the hair. 



Uhha, written by Mr. Cooley Oha, was formerly a 

 large tract of land bounded on the north by the 

 mountains of Urundi, southwards and eastwards by 

 the Malagarazi River, and on the west by the 

 northern parts of Ujiji. As has been recounted, the 

 Wahha dispersed by the Watuta have dispersed them- 

 selves over the broad lands between Unyanyembe and 

 the Tanganyika, and their own fertile country, well 

 stocked with the finest cattle, has become a waste of 

 jungle. A remnant of the tribe, under Kanoni, their 

 present Sultan, son of the late T'hare, took refuge in 



