224 - THE LAKE REGIONS OF CENTRAL AFRICA. 



Laghbari, then governor of the island, made sundry 

 journeys into the interior. About 1825, the brothers 

 first visited the Land of the Moon, preceding the Arab 

 travellers, who in those days made their markets at 

 Usanga and Usenga, distant about a dozen marches to 

 the S.S.E. of Kazeh. Musa describes Unyamwezi as 

 richly cultivated, and he has not forgotten the hospit- 

 able reception of the people. The brothers bought up 

 a little venture of forty Farasilah or twenty men's loads 

 of cloth and beads, and returned with a joint stock of 

 800 Farasilah (800 x 35 = 28,000 lbs. avoirdupois) in 

 ivory ; as Sayyan died on the road, all fell to Musa's 

 share. Since that time he has made five journeys to 

 the coast and several to the northern kingdoms. About 

 four years ago Armanika, the present Sultan of Ka- 

 ragwah, was besieged in a palisaded village by a rebel 

 brother Rumanika. On this occasion Musa, in company 

 with the king, endured great hardships, and incurred no 

 little risk ; when both parties were weary of fighting, 

 he persuaded, by a large bribe of ivory, Suna, the 

 powerful despot of the neighbouring kingdom of 

 Uganda, to raise the siege, by throwing a strong force 

 into the field. He has ever since been fraternally 

 received by Armanika, and his last journey to Ka- 

 ragwah was for the purpose of recovering part of the 

 ivory expended in the king's cause. After an absence 

 of fifteen months he brought back about a score of 

 splendid tusks, one weighing, he declared, upwards of 

 200 lbs. During his detention Salim bin Sayf, of 

 Dut'humi, who had been entrusted by Musa with sixty- 

 five Farasilah of ivory to barter for goods on the coast, 

 arrived at Unyanyembe, when hearing the evil tidings, 

 the wily Harisi appropriated the property and returned 

 to whence he came. Like most merchants in East Africa, 



