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AFRICA AND ITS EXPLORATION. 
host of nameless half-castes of inordinate pride, savage 
spirit, and immeasurable greed. 
The Arabs of Nyangwe, when they first heard of the 
arrival of Tippu-Tib at Imbarri from the south, were 
anxious to count him as their fellow-settler ; but Tippu- 
Tib had no ambition to become the chief citizen of a 
place which could boast of no better settlers than vain 
old Dugumbi, the butcher Mtagamoyo, and silly Sheikh 
Abed ; he therefore proceeded to Mwana Mamba’s, 
where he found better society with Mohammed bin 
Sayid, Sayid bin Sultan, Mse Ani, and Sayid bin 
Mohammed el Mezrui. Sayid bin Sultan, in features, 
js a rough copy of Abdul Aziz, late Sultan of Turkey. 
One of the principal institutions at Nyangwe is the 
Kituka, or the market, with the first of which I made 
acquaintance in 1871, in Ujiji and Urundi. One day it 
is held in the open plaza in front of Sheikh Abed’s 
house ; on the next day in Dugumbi’s section, half a 
mile from the other ; and on the third at the confluence 
of the Kunda and the Lualaba ; and so on in turn. 
In this market everything becomes vendible and 
purchasable, from an ordinary earthenware pot to a fine 
handsome girl from Samba, Marera, or Ukusu. From 
one thousand to three thousand natives of both sexes 
and of all ages gather here from across the Lualaba and 
from the Kunda banks, from the islands up the river 
and from the villages of the Mitamba or forest. Nearly 
all are clad in the fabrics of Manyema, fine grass cloths, 
which are beautifully coloured and very durable. The 
articles sold here for cowries, beads, copper and iron 
wire, and lambas, or squares of palm cloth,* represent 
the productions of Manyema. I went round the market 
and made out the following list : — 
Sweet potatoes. 
Yams. 
Maize. 
Sesamum. 
Millet. 
Beans. 
Cucumbers. 
Melons. 
Cassava. 
Ground-nuts. 
Bananas. 
Sugar-cane. 
Pepper (in berries). 
Vegetables for broths. 
Wild fruit. 
Palm-butter. 
Oil-palm nuts. 
Pine-apples. 
Honey. 
Eggs. 
Fowls. 
* Made from the fibre of the Rapliia vinifera palm. 
