MARUNGU. 



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hitherto abandoned this line to debtors and desperate 

 men. 



South of Uguhha lies the unimportant tribe of Wa- 

 t'hembwe, whose possessions are within sight of Kawele 

 in Ujiji. The race adjoining them is the Wakatete 

 or Wakadete, and the country is called by the Arabs 

 Awwal Marungu, on the northern frontier of Marungu. 

 Marungu is one of the most important divisions of the 

 lands about the Tanganyika. Amayr bin Said el 

 Shaksi, a sturdy old merchant from Oman, who, wrecked 

 about twelve years ago on that part of the coast, had 

 spent five months with the people, living on roots and 

 grasses, divides the region generically termed Marungu 

 into three distinct provinces — Marungu to the north, 

 Karungu in the centre, and Urungu on the south. 

 Others mention a western Marungu, divided from the 

 eastern by the Runangwa River, and they call the 

 former in contradistinction Marungu Tafuna, from its 

 sultan. 



Western Marungu extends according to the Arabs in 

 depth from Ut'hembwe to the Wabisa, a tribe holding 

 extensive lands westward of the Nyassa Lake. Tra- 

 vellers from Unyamwezi to K'hokoro meet, near Ufipa, 

 caravans of the northern Wabisa en route to Kilwa. 

 Between Marungu and Usencla, the capital of the Ka- 

 zembe, the road lies through the district of Kavvire, 

 distant seven marches ; thence nine stages conduct 

 them to the end of the journey. There is an upper 

 land route through Uruwwa for those travelling from 

 Ujiji to IT sen da, and many caravans have passed from 

 Unyanyembe direct through K'hokoro and Ufipa, to the 

 country of the Kazembe. Mr. Cooley ("Geography of 

 N'yassi," p. 7) conjectures that the Ambios or Imbies, 

 Zimbas or Muzimbas, celebrated by the old Portuguese 



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