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CHAPTER XVI. 
GONJA TO LONDON. 
Leaving this settlement of Gronja we walked through a 
beautiful and well-forested plain, brimming over with 
fertility, although little cultivated. We camped at 
Kihuhg we 5 s, another Zegiiha chief of Semboja’s family, 
who has made a settlement on the banks of the 
Mkomazi river, and attracted to his precincts vaga¬ 
bonds and fugitives from all adjacent countries. We 
were now at the northern entrance of a broad and 
level plain which stretches between the mountains of 
Pare and Usambara and slopes very gently to the 
River Ruvu. It is perhaps forty miles in width, 
uninhabited save by a few harmless bands of Masai, 
whose spirit has been broken by repeated defeats 
received from the Wa-sambara and the Wa-pare, and 
who are now too meek to demand tribute from passing 
caravans. I met some of these people on the road, 
and stopped to chat with them and glean some more 
notes about their language. We also encountered 
some of the Wa-mbugu, a curious race of cattle-keepers 
dwelling at the foot of the Usambara hills. 
This plain is covered with thin shrubs and stunted 
trees, with occasional patches of emerald-green grass. 
It is the resort of immense quantities of game, which 
