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and these he gets rid of by presenting them to his 
young men, the gift always being regarded by the 
latter as a great favour. Such is life in Chaga. 
The immediate neighbours of the Wachaga are the 
occupants of the plain at the foot of the mountain, 
the Wataveta, the Wakahe, and the two Arushas. All 
these people were originally allied to the Wachaga, 
as their language, manners, and customs indicate ; 
but their intercourse with the Wakuavi has greatly 
changed them, and they are now more assimilated to 
the latter than to the former ; but of this enough has 
been said in the body of the narrative. 
North of Kilima Njaro stretches the plains of 
Kaptei, formerly overrun by the Wakuavi hordes, but 
now left uninhabited and desolate. North of Kaptei 
is Kikuyu, the plains lying around the base of the 
Kenia. The Wakikuyu are a wild, inhospitable race of 
agriculturists, addicted to plundering caravans, as the 
experience of Dr. Krapf and all the natives who have 
travelled there testify. To the east of Kaptei and 
Kikuyu is Ukambani. 
The Kenia, or Kena, as it is sometimes called, is 
a gigantic mountain, of which Dr. Krapf caught a 
glimpse, six days to the south of it, and which he 
reports as being a larger mountain than Kilima Njaro, 
and also covered with perpetual snow. The testimony 
of the natives, however, whom I have examined upon 
the subject, leads me to the conclusion that, while a 
mighty mountain mass, it is less than Kilima Njaro ; 
and as to its snows, it is said to be spotted rather than 
covered, as Kilima Njaro is, with snow ; and while the 
latter is called by the Masai, El doinyo Eibor (white 
mountain), the Kenia is designated by the same 
