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laws as regards elephants are here strictly in favour of 

 the Sultan. An animal found dead in his district, 

 though wounded in another, becomes his property on 

 condition of his satisfying his officials with small presents 

 of cloth and beads : the flesh is feasted upon by the 

 tribe, and the ivory is sold to travelling traders. 



The Wahehe, situated between the Wasagara and 

 Wagogo, partake a little of the appearance of both. 

 They are a plain race, but stout and well grown. Though 

 to appearance hearty and good-humoured, they are de- 

 termined pilferers : they have more than once attacked 

 caravans, and only the AVarori have prevented them from 

 cutting off the road to Ugogo. During the return 

 of the Expedition in 1858 they took occasion to 

 drive off unseen a flock of goats ; and at night no 

 man, unless encamped in a strong kraal, was safe from 

 their attempts to snatch his goods. On one occasion, 

 being caught in flagrant delict, they were compelled to 

 restore their plunder, with an equivalent as an indem- 

 nity. They are on bad terms with all their neighbours, 

 and they unite under their chief Sultan Bumbumu. 



The Wahehe enlarge their ears like the Wagogo, they 

 chip the two upper incisors, and they burn beauty-spots 

 in their forearms. Some men extract three or four of 

 the lower incisors : whenever an individual without these 

 teeth is seen in Ugogo he is at once known as a Mhehe. 

 For distinctive mark they make two cicatrised incisions 

 on both cheeks from the zygomata to the angles of 

 the mouth. They dress like the Wagogo, but they 

 have less cloth than skins. The married women usually 

 wear a jupe, in shape recalling the old swallow-tailed 

 coat of Europe, with kitindi, or coil armlets of brass or 

 iron wire on both forearms and above the elbows. Un- 

 married girls amongst the Wahehe are known by their 



