THE RIVER THAT FLOWED NORTH, NORTH, NORTH. 419 
liigli and reddish bank rising some forty feet above the 
river, with clear open country north along the river for 
a distance of three miles, east some ten miles, south 
over seventy miles, or as far as the confluence of the 
Luama with the Lualaba. The town called N yang we is 
divided into two sections. The northern section has for 
its centre the quarters of Muini Dugumbi, the first 
Arab arrival here (in 1868) ; and around his house are 
the commodious quarters of his friends, their families 
and slaves — in all, perhaps, 300 houses. The southern 
section is separated from its neighbour by a broad 
hollow, cultivated and sown with rice for the Arabs. 
When the Lualaba rises to its full amplitude, this 
hollow is flooded. The chief house of the southern half 
of Nyangwe is the large and well-built clay banda of 
Sheikh Abed bin Salim. In close neighbourhood to 
this are the houses and 
huts of those Arab 
Wangwana who prefer 
the company of Abed 
bin Salim to Muini 
Dugumbi. Abed 
showed me his spacious 
courtyard, wherein he 
jealously guards his harem of thirty fine, comely, large- 
eyed women. He possesses two English hens which 
came from India, and several chickens of mixed breed, 
two dozen tame pigeons, and some guinea-fowds ; in his 
store-room were about sixty or seventy tusks, large and 
small. 
Between the two foreign chiefs of Nyangwe there is 
great jealousy. Each endeavours to be recognized by 
the natives as being the most powerful. Dugumbi is 
an east coast trader of Sa’adani, a half-caste, a vulgar, 
coarse-minded old man of probably seventy years of 
age, with a negroid nose and a negroid mind. Sheikh 
Abed is a tall, thin old man, white-bearded, patriarchal 
in aspect, narrow-minded, rather peevish and quick to 
take offence, a thorough believer in witchcraft, and a 
fervid Muslim. 
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