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THE KILIMA-NJABO EXPEDITION. 
elsewhere, who speak languages of the Bantu family, 
differ from the Masai in speech and in physical fea¬ 
tures, and resemble rather in both these points the 
majority of the inhabitants of the southern half of 
Africa (who also belong linguistically to the same 
group), and further, as I cannot call one negro and 
the other negroid (since both are negro), I prefer to 
use the term Bantu in a physical as well as in a lin¬ 
guistic sense, and to speak of the Bantu peoples in 
contradistinction to the Masai. The principal Bantu 
tribes in the district I am describing are the Wa-taveita 
on the River Lumi, at the base of Kilima-njaro, the 
Wa-caga, who, under many chieftains and political 
divisions, inhabit the great mountain, the Wa-gweno 
and Wa-kahe to the south, and the A-kamba and Wa- 
taita to the north-east and east. When I started for 
Kilima-njaro from Mombasa I encountered no inhabi¬ 
tants until we reached the hills of Maungu, on the 
borders of Taita. Here some people came and sold us 
honey and spoke to us in the Ki-taita dialect. At 
Ndara and Bura we subsequently saw more of the 
Wa-taita, and many of them afterwards emigrated to 
Taveita and Caga, and even entered my service as 
hunters and scouts, so that I was enabled to see a good 
deal of them from first to last, and take down vocabu¬ 
laries of their dialect. 
In outward appearance the Wa-taita are unpre¬ 
possessing. They are about the medium height, the 
men varying generally from five feet three inches to 
five feet nine inches, and the women from four feet 
eleven inches to five feet four inches. They have 
fairly good figures, the limbs, especially the legs, are 
well formed, but the men are somewhat effeminate 
and slight-looking. In facial aspect there is much 
