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alias Sultan Makande, a diwan or headman, from Ugogo, 

 here settled as chief, and well known on the eastern sea- 

 board : he came to offer his good services. But he talked 

 like an idiot , he begged for every article that met his 

 eye: and he wished me — palpably for his own benefit — 

 to follow the most northerly of the three routes leading 

 to Unyamwezi, upon which there were not less than eight 

 " sultans " described by Kidogo as being " one hungrier 

 than the other." At last, an elephant having been found 

 dead within his limits, he disappeared, much to my 

 relief, for the purpose of enjoying a gorge of elephant- 

 beef. 



Ugogi is the half-way district between the coast and 

 Unyanyembe, and it is usually made by up- caravans 

 at the end of the second month. The people of this 

 " no man's land " are a mongrel race : the Wasagara 

 claim the ground, but they have admitted as settlers 

 many Wahehe and Wagogo, the latter for the most part 

 men who have left their country for their country's good. 

 The plains are rich in grain, and the hills in cattle, when 

 not harried, as they had been, a little before our arrival, 

 by the Warori. The inhabitants sometimes offer for sale 

 milk and honey, eggs and ghee, but — only the civilised 

 rogue can improve by adulteration — the milk falls like 

 water off the finger, the honey is in the red stage of fer- 

 mentation, of the eggs there are few without the rude be- 

 ginnings of a chicken, and the ghee, from long keeping, 

 is sweet above and bitter below. The country still con- 

 tains game, kanga, or guinea-fowls, in abundance, the 

 ocelot, a hyrax like the coney of the Somali country, 

 and the beautiful " silver jackal." The elephant and 

 the giraffe are frequently killed on the plains. The giraffe 

 is called by the Arabs Jamal el Wahshi, a translation of 

 the Kisawahili Ngamia ya Muyt u, " Camel of the Wild," 



