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THE LAKE REGIONS OF CENTRAL AFRICA. 



tion, which tallied with the details supplied by Snay bin 

 Amin and the Arabs of Kazeh. 



The Warori extend from the western frontier of the 

 Wahehe, about forty marches along principally the 

 northern bank of the Rwaha River, to the meridian 

 of Eastern Unyanyembe. They are a semi-pastoral 

 tribe, continually at war with their neighbours. They 

 never sell their own people, but attack the Wabena, the 

 Wakimbu, the Wahehe, the Wakonongo, and the races 

 about Unyangwira, and drive their captives to the sea, 

 or dispose of them to the slavers in Usagara* The 

 price is of course cheap ; a male adult is worth from 

 two to six shukkah merkani. Some years ago a large 

 plundering party, under their chief Mbangera, attacked 

 Sultan Kalala of the Wasukuma ; they were, however, 

 defeated, with the loss of their leader, by Kafrira of 

 Kivira, the son-in-law of Kalala. They also ravaged 

 Unyanyembe, and compelled the people to take refuge 

 on the summit of a natural rock-fortress between Kazeh 

 and Yombo, and they have more than once menaced the 

 dominions of Fundikira. Those mighty boasters the 

 Wagogo hold the Warori in awe; as the Arabs say, they 

 shrink small as a cubit before foes fiercer than themselves. 

 The Warori have wasted the lands of Uhehe and Unyang- 

 wira, and have dispersed the Wakimbu and the Wamia 

 tribes. They have closed the main-road from the seaboard 

 by exorbitant blackmail and charges for water, and about 

 five years ago they murdered two coast Arab traders 

 from Mbuamaji. Since their late defeat by the Watuta, 

 they have been comparatively quiet. When the E. 

 African Expedition, however, entered the country they 

 had just distinguished themselves by driving the herds 

 from Ugogi, and thus prevented any entrance into their 

 country from that district. Like the pastoral races 



