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able village of stray Wagara or Wagala, an extensive 

 tribe, limiting Unyamwezi on the S. and S.E., at the 

 distance of about a week's march from the road. On 

 the 27th January, after traversing cultivation, thick 

 jungles, and low muddy bottoms of tall grass chequered 

 with lofty tamarinds, we made the large well-palisadoed 

 villages of the Mukozimo district, inhabited by a mix- 

 ture of Wanyamwezi, with Wagara from the S.E. and 

 Wawende from the S.W. The headman of one of these 

 inhospitable " Kaya," or fenced hamlets, would not 

 house " men who ride asses." The next station was 

 Uganza, a populous settlement of Wawende, who ad- 

 mitted us into their faubourg, but refused to supply pro- 

 visions. The 29th January saw us at the populous and 

 fertile clearing of Usenye, where the mixed races lying 

 between the Land of the Moon eastward, and Uvinza 

 westward, give way to pure Wavinza, who are con- 

 sidered by travellers even more dangerous than their 

 neighbours. 



Beyond Usenye we traversed a deep jungle where 

 still lingered remains of villages which had been plun- 

 dered and burned down by the Wawende and the Wa- 

 tuta, whose hills rose clearly defined on the right hand. 

 Having passed the night at Rukunda, or Lukunda, on 

 the 31st January we sighted the plain "of the Mala- 

 garazi River. Northwards of the road ran the stream, 

 and the low level of the country adjoining it had con- 

 verted the bottoms into permanent beds of soft, deep, 

 and slippery mire. The rest of the march was the 

 usual country — jungle, fields, and grasses — and after a 

 toilsome stretch, we unpacked at the settlement of 

 Wanyika. 



At Wanyika we were delayed for a day by the neces- 

 sity of settling Euhonga, or blackmail, with the envoys 



