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AFRICA AND ITS EXPLORATION. 
crimeful hands, and we grasped their hands in token of 
amity— and parted. 
On the 17th of June we continued our voyage from 
Urimba towards Kungwe cape, one of the projecting 
spurs from the Kungwe mountains, and in the evening 
camped on Bongo Island, a few miles south-west from 
Ndereh, the robbers’ village. We were visited in the 
night by about sixty of them armed with muskets. 
Though it was an unusual hour, and an unseasonable 
one for receiving visitors, we avoided trouble, and by 
parting with cloth and exhausting the powers of suavity, 
we happily avoided a rupture with the wild and bloody 
men of Ndereh, and before dawn stole away unperceived 
on our journey. 
The peaks of Kungwe are probably from 2500 to 
3000 feet above the lake. They are not. only interesting 
from their singular appearance, but also as being a 
refuge for the last remaining: families of the aborigines 
of Kawendi. On the topmost and most inaccessible 
heights dwells the remnant of the once powerful nation 
which in old times — so tradition relates — overran Uhlia 
and Uvinza, and were a terror to the Wakalaganza. 
They cultivate the slopes of their strongholds, which 
amply repay them for their labour. Fuel is found in 
the gorges between the peaks, and means of defence 
are at hand in the huge rocks which they have piled 
up ready to repel the daring intruder. Their elders 
retain the traditions of the race whence they sprang ; 
and in their charge are the Lares and Penates of old 
Kawendi — the Muzimu. In the home of the eagles 
they find a precarious existence, as a seed to reproduce 
another nation, or as a short respite before complete 
extermination. 
The best view of this interesting clump of mountain 
heights is to be had off’ the mouth of the torrent 
Luwulungu. 
From Cape Kungwe south, the coast as far as Ulam- 
bula consists of a lofty mountain front, pierced by several 
deep and most picturesque inlets, gorges, ravines, and 
rifts. Into these pours the Luwulungu rushing along 
