278 Wanderings in Easter^i Africa. 
effort would accelerate their motion to the speed 
of a steamer. Then again, whoever may suffer from 
drought, the Wapokomo never do. Further, the de- 
posits from the water impart richness to the soil, 
supplying it with that which is equal to the best 
manure. The country of the Wapokomo is the Nile- 
land of Eastern Africa. 
The Wasania. — These people are variously desig- 
nated. The Wasuahili of Mombasa call them Wa- 
langulo, but the Wanika Alungulo and Ariungulo. 
They are called Wasania by the people of Malinde, 
Lamu, etc., while that portion of the race north of the 
river Ozi are known as Wadahalo. The Gallas call 
them Wata. 
They occupy a slip of country along the coast line, 
between the Wasuahili of the immediate shore and 
the Gallas. From the north as far as to Takaungu it 
runs directly along the borders of Suahili-land, but 
from Takaungu it diverges in a westerly direction be- 
hind the Kinika territories of Kauma and Geriama. 
The country consists alternately of thick tangled 
woods (not forests), tracts of closely nibbled and beau- 
tifully green sward, prairies of high coarse grass and 
rushes, far-stretching patches of (sometimes dry, but 
usually flooded) sand-flats, and considerable portions 
of unhealthy miasmatic mangrove swamps. Such is 
Usania, Ulangulo, or whatever it may be called. It is 
not an inviting piece of country, though, no doubt, 
stocked as it is with wild beasts, it suits its pos- 
sessors. 
The Wasania are the subjects of the Gallas, but they 
indignantly resent the application to them of the term 
slave. The Gallas take from them a heavy per-centage 
