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white or blue cottons, and even in exchange for milk 

 they demand coral, pink, or blue glass beads. A mo- 

 derate sized caravan will expend from six to ten shuk- 

 kah per cliem. The Wanyamwezi travelling-parties 

 live by their old iron hoes, for which grain is returned 

 by the people, who hold the metal in request. 



The Wahumba, by some called Wahumpa, is one of 

 the terrible pastoral nations " beyond the rivers of 

 ^Ethiopia." To judge from their dialect they are, like 

 the Wakwafi, a tribe or a subtribe of the great Masai 

 race, who speak a language partly South-African and 

 partly Semitico- African, like that of the Somal. The 

 habitat of the Wahumba extends from the north of 

 Usagara to the eastern shores of the Nyanza or Ukerewe 

 Lake ; it has been remarked that a branch of the Mu- 

 kondokwa River rises in their mountains. The blue 

 highlands occupied by this pastoral race, clearly visible, 

 on the right hand, to the traveller passing from Ugogo 

 westwards, show where the ancient route from Pan^ani- 

 town used to fall into the main trunk-road of Unyamwezi. 

 Having but little ivory, they are seldom visited by 

 travellers: their country, however, was explored some 

 years ago by an Arab merchant, Hamid bin Salim, for 

 the purpose of buying asses. He set out from Tura, in 

 eastern Unyamwezi, and, traversing the country of the 

 wild Watatiiru, arrived on the eighth day at the fron- 

 tier district Tramba, where there is a river which sepa- 

 rates the tribes. He was received with civility ; but 

 none have since followed his example. 



The Wahumba are a fair and comely race, with the 

 appearance of mountaineers, long-legged, and lightly 

 made. They have repeatedly ravaged the lands of 

 Usagara and Ugogo : in the latter country, near 

 Usek'he, there are several settlements of this people, 



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