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AFRICA AND ITS EXPLORATION. 
supplies of sweet potatoes, yams, sugar-cane, ground- 
nuts, oil-nuts, palm-oil and palm-wine, butter, and 
pombe, to retail them at enormous profits to their 
countrymen, have raised their prices on some things 
a hundred per cent, over what they were when I was 
in Ujiji last. This has caused the Wangwana and 
slaves to groan in spirit, for the Arabs are unable to 
dole out to them rations in proportion to the prices 
now demanded. The governor, supplied by the 
Mutware of the lake district of Ujiji, will not interfere, 
though frequently implored to do so, and, consequently, 
there are frequent fights, when the Wangwana rush on 
the natives with clubs, in much the same manner as 
the apprentices of London used to rush to the rescue or 
succour of one of their bands. 
Except the Wajiji, who have become rich in cloths, 
the rural natives retain the primitive dress worn by 
the Wazinja, Wazongora, Wanyambu, Wanya-Ruanda, 
Kishakka, Wanyoro, and Wanya-Nkori, Wasui, Watusi, 
Wahha, Warundi, and Wazige, namely, a dressed goat- 
skin covering the loins, and hanging down to within 
six inches above the knees, with long depending tags 
of the same material. All these tribes are related to 
each other, and their language shows only slight dif- 
ferences in dialect. Moreover, many of those inhabiting 
the countries contiguous to Unyamwezi and Uganda 
have lost those special characteristics which distinguish 
the pure unmixed stock from the less favoured and less 
refined types of Africans. 
Uhha daily sends to the market of Ujiji its mtama, 
grain (millet), sesamum, beans, fowls, goats, and broad- 
tailed sheep, butter, and sometimes oxen ; Urundi, its 
goats, sheep, oxen, butter, palm-oil and palm-nuts, 
fowls, bananas, and plantains ; Uzige — now and then 
only — its oxen and palm-oil ; Uvira, its iron, in wire of 
all sizes, bracelets, and anklets ; Ubwari, its cassava or 
manioc, dried, and enormous quantities of grain, Dogara 
or whitebait, and dried fish ; Uvinza, its salt ; Uguha, 
its goats and sheep, and grain, especially Indian corn ; 
rural Wajiji bring their buttermilk, ground-nuts, sweet 
