Life at Kisigau. 
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Usambara. This very day is the seventh since we 
brought them to Kisigau. There is gnombe for 
you ! We got a goodly number of wasijana too." 
From all I could learn, J judge that gnombe are 
valued highly, chiefly from the fact that they are the 
cash " in which wedding dowry is paid, that is, by 
which wives are procured. Young marriageable men 
go to the wars" principally with the view of obtaining 
the wherewithal to procure a wife, though they are 
not usually content with one, polygamy, as a matter 
of course, prevailing here as elsewhere in Africa. 
The people of Kisigau, Bura, and Ndara unite their 
bands in these plundering expeditions. The booty is 
divided according to the number of men which each 
tribe may supply, and each party has to divide its 
share amongst its own members as it can. Quarrels 
over the division are fierce and very frequent, and it 
often happens that after all is over some get nothing 
but bruises and wounds. They must make large cap- 
tures to obtain one head of cattle per man ; but those 
who get nothing to-day hope, I presume, to get some- 
thing to-morrow. 
Slavery exists in Taita, but it is not the slavery of 
Europe or America. A slave here is not in a worse 
condition than the free. True, this is not saying 
much, because the free are in a most degraded state, 
still ''it is enough that the servant should be as his 
master." The capture of a slave and his liability to 
be sold is the great monstrosity here. At Rukanga I 
met an old man whom I discovered to be a Mlangulo. 
He had been captured by the Wataita when a boy. He 
was in a most miserable plight, yet seemed perfectly 
contented with his lot. There was nothing to prevent 
