THE RIVER THAT FLOWED NORTH , NORTH , NORTH. 425 
At Unyanyembe, therefore, they have planted papaws, 
sweet limes, mangoes, lemons, custard-apples, pome- 
granates, and have sown wheat and rice in abundance. 
At Ujiji also they have papaws, sweet limes, pome- 
granates, lemons, wheat, rice, and onions. At Nyangwe' 
their fruit consists of pine-apples, papaws, and pome- 
granates. They have succeeded admirably in their rice, 
both at Nyangwe', Kasongo’s, and Mwana Mamba’s. 
Onions are a failure, the Arabs say, because of a species 
of worm which destroys them. The banana (Musa para- 
disaica ) and plantain (Musa sapientum ) are indigenous. 
The Wagenya, as the Arabs call them, or Wenya — 
pronounced Wainya — as they style themselves, are a 
remarkable tribe of fishers, who inhabit both banks of 
the Lualaba, from the confluence of the Kamalondo on 
the left bank down to the sixth cataract of the Stanley 
Falls, and on the right bank from the confluence of the 
Luama down to Ubwire or Usongora Meno. 
The Wenya were the aborigines of Nyangwe', when 
the advanced party of Muini Dugumbi appeared on the 
scene, precursors of ruin, terror, and depopulation to 
the inhabitants of 700 square miles of Manyema. Con- 
sidering that the fertile open tract of country between 
the Luama and Nyangwe was exceedingly populous, as 
the ruins of scores of villages testify, sixty inhabitants 
to the square mile would not be too great a proportion. 
The river border, then, of Manyema, from the Luama 
to Nyangwe', may be said to have had a population of 
42,000 souls, of which there remain probably only 
20,000. The others have been deported, or massacred, 
or have fled to the islands, or emigrated down the river. 
The Arabs and Wangwana have murdered also the 
word Lualaba, or Lualowa. They have given us instead 
Ugalowa, Ugarowa, which must be rejected, as I never 
heard a single native west of the Tanganika use the 
term. It originated, no doubt, from some slave of 
Uhiyau, or Nyassa, Bisa, Unyamwezi, or other parts. 
Had an intelligent Arab heard the name first, we should 
most probably have received something nearer the 
correct word. 
