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beginning on the west, are Sira, Kibonoto, Macame, 
Urn, Kiboso, Mpokomo, Mosi, Kirua, Kilema, Ma- 
ranu, Mamba, Mwika, Msai, Hombo, Useri, and 
Kimangelia. Altliougli these little states are per¬ 
petually quarrelling among themselves, they are 
nevertheless closely united by ties of blood and possess 
a common language, Ki-caga, unless, indeed, the Wa- 
rombo, as I have sometimes thought, speak a dialect 
of their own. 
The inhabitants of Kahe (the country lying due 
south of Kilima-njaro in the plains of the Upper Ruvu), 
of Ugweno, and also, I am told, of Mount Meru, seem 
to resemble closely the Wa-caga in language and in 
physical features. They were doubtless the same race 
not long since, but the invasion of the Masai split 
them up into different sections, and they became 
isolated in their coigns of refuge, some on the moun¬ 
tains, some in the marshy swamps. The Wa-gweno 
are a very timid set, and greatly afraid of witchcraft. 
Everything at all strange or incomprehensible is 
“ usawi ” (sorcery). They not only dread the Masai 
with all their hearts, but they also invest the little 
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Lake Jipe, which lies at the foot of their mountains, 
with imaginary terrors, declaring they dare not fish 
on its banks or cross its waters in canoes, on account 
of an awful kelpy-like monster which dwells in the 
lake and sallies out to devour all who may approach 
the waterside. In vain do the Wa-taveita go and fish 
there fearlessly under the eyes of the Wa-gweno; 
these timorous folk nevertheless continue to avoid the 
lake wherein are present such boundless stores of food. 
I have no doubt that the legend of the water-monster 
arose from either the voracious crocodiles or the obstre- 
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perous hippopotami which inhabit the waters of Jipe. 
