48 Wanderings in Eastern Africa. 
however, aware that he should be unable to meet so 
formidable a foe in an unfortified village, retired into 
the mountain fastnesses of Udigo, built Maboma 
(stockades), dug trenches, and defied his besiegers. 
The latter, after several attempts to storm the place, 
the perpetration of numerous atrocities, and the loss 
of some of their own party, gave up the attack, 
and retired, greatly chopfallen, to Mombasa and 
Zanzibar. 
The upland district between Pangani and Tanga is 
called Mrima, a term which is also apphed to the 
sea-board as far south as the Rufiji river, and often to 
the whole mainland, by way of distinction from the 
many islands that dot the shores. Behind this district 
rise the mountains of Usambara, according to Dr. 
Krapf a truly magnificent country, extraordinarily 
fertile, and possessing a cool, almost bracing, and 
comparatively healthy climate. The Wasambara are 
a numerous and important people, but they ruin them- 
selves and their country by never-ending feuds among 
themselves. 
Northward, to the latitude of Mombasa, the country 
is called Digo, or Udigo, or Unika, whence rises the 
fine peak Jombo, and the long uniform mountain 
range of Shimba. 
Besides the Wasambara, the people occupying 
these territories are the Washinzi, the Wazegeju, and 
the Wadigo, the latter being the southern section of 
the Wanika. 
The Wazegeju are a poor and despised race, 
similar in their habits and customs to their neighbours, 
the Wanika, of whom we shall have more to say 
hereafter. The Washinzi (conquered) are also held in 
