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THE KIL1MA-NJAE0 EXPEDITION. 
with a light skin shows an intermixture of Galla blood. 
They are slightly clothed in leathern coverings with a 
certain regard for decency. Originally, according to 
their traditions, inhabitants of plains and mountains 
to the south-east of Kilima-njaro, they were driven 
farther north by the inroads of the Masai, and eventu¬ 
ally settled in that long strip of country which 
separates the latter race from the Galla. Here they 
have taken pretty firm root, together with their close 
relations, the Wa-kikuyu and the Wa-Saico of Kenia, 
and however they may have been harassed by both 
Masai and Galla, they have increased and multiplied. 
Indeed of late years they have become too numerous 
in their own land for the limited supply of food, and 
so are compelled to wander to the coast and to Taveita 
in search of subsistence. They are a quiet, indus¬ 
trious, manly race, very different to the wretched 
A-nyika of Mombasa (teste Krapf), and will doubtless, 
when their country comes to be opened up, play the 
same important role of carriers and workmen as the 
Wa-swahili of Zanzibar. 
The beautiful forest district of Taveita is inhabited 
by two different colonies. One a Kwavi people of 
Masai origin, and the other and more primitive a most 
interesting Bantu tribe, the Wa-taveita, who exhibit 
marked peculiarities in their language and ideas. Let 
me begin by saying that they are one of the pleasantest 
people I have ever encountered in Africa. They are 
of fair height, some of the men being both tall and 
robust, and attaining occasionally six feet in height. 
Their figures are often models of symmetry and 
grace. They anoint the body with oil and ochre, as 
do the neighbouring people already described. The 
hair is dressed in many fashions, more often divided 
