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THE KILIMANJARO EXPEDITION. 
A, and even Ma. And Sin or Tin change to Zin, Din, 
Lin, or Son. 
The Bantu languages have been divided for con¬ 
venience of description into four main branches, the 
Western, Southern, Eastern, and Central. These are 
not altogether natural and homogeneous divisions, as 
some of the languages though geographically close to 
one another are in reality widely separated in manner 
and time of development. However, for the present 
this arrangement, being a simple one, may stand. 
It is, therefore, in the Eastern division that the 
Bantu languages of Kilima-njaro are placed, though 
they' exhibit certain points of resemblance to the 
tongues spoken on the Victoria Nyanza. On the 
whole, perhaps, their most decided affinities lie with 
the languages to the east of them, namely, the Ki- 
kamba, Ki-taita, Ki-nyika, and Ki-pokomo. 
The language spoken on Kilima-njaro is Ki-caga. 
This seems to be the speech of all the Bantu inhabi¬ 
tants of the mountain, unless, indeed, the Wa-rombo 
are to be excepted. These wild people seemed to me 
to use a different dialect to the rest of the Wa-caga. 
(Vide Chapter XIV.) 
To the south-east of the great mountain is the little 
agricultural colony of Taveita. Ki-taveita is the lan¬ 
guage used by the Bantu half of the population— 
Masai being the speech of the remainder. Ki-gweno 
closely resembles Ki-caga. It is the dialect of the 
Ugweno mountains to the south of Lake Jipe. 
Ki-kamba is spoken by the A-kamba dwelling on the 
upper waters of the Tzavo river, but as this language 
has already been described by Krapf, and latterly by 
the Rev. A. Downes-Shaw, 8 1 do not think it necessary 
f 8 “ A Pocket Vocabulary of East African languages,” by the Rev. 
A. Downes-Shaw. S.P.C.K. 
