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THE LAKE REGIONS OF CENTRAL AFRICA. 



their dialect. Some of them, like the Wanyoro, had 

 extracted all the lower incisors. 



North of the Wafipa, according to the Arabs, lies 

 another tribe, called Wat'hembe (?), an offshoot from 

 the people on the opposite side of the Tanganyika. 

 Here the lake receives a small river called the Murun- 

 guru (?), The circuit of the Tanganyika concludes with 

 the Wat'hongwe, called from their sultan or their founder 

 Wat'hongwe Kapana. In clear weather their long pro- 

 montory is the furthest point visible from Kawele in 

 Ujiji; and their lands extend northwards to Ukaranga 

 and the Malagarazi River. 



Such are the most important details culled from a 

 mass of Arab oral geography : they are offered however 

 to the reader without any guarantee of correctness. 

 The principal authorities are the Shaykh Snay bin Amir 

 el Harsi and Amayr bin Said el Shaksi ; the latter was 

 an eye-witness. All the vague accounts noted down 

 from casual informants were submitted to them for an 

 imprimatur. Their knowledge and experience sur- 

 passing those of others, it was judged better to record 

 information upon trust from them only, rather than to 

 heap together reliable and unreliable details, and as 

 some travellers do, by striking out a medium, inevitably 

 to confuse fact with fiction. Yet it is the explorer's 

 unpleasant duty throughout these lands to doubt every- 

 thing that has not been subjected to his own eyes. 

 The boldest might look at the " Mombas Mission Map" 

 and tremble. 



