KAGEI TO TABORA AND BACK. 135 inside the Kwikuru, or capital, and supplied me liberally with food during my stay. Said bin Salim also frequently sent me presents of fowls, curry and rice, so that I lived in clover.

Uyui is a large town for Africa, and consists of a collection of well-built tembes closely packed together, with winding streets shaded by large fig trees. It is strongly fortified with a palisade of high poles and a deep ditch, and, if provided with a good stock of water and provisions, could hold its own for a long time against a besieging enemy. There is a dense population in and around the capital, so that it offers a good field for missionary operations, and the Church Missionary Society has now (1881) a prosperous station there. The king, whose real name I never heard, goes by the pseudonym of Majemba Grana, or " The hundred hoes," the origin of which is said to be the following circumstance. Some years ago, when Mirambo was less powerful than he is now, he had made a raid to the east of Uyui, and had obtained a large amount of booty ; being anxious to return home by the shortest route, which lay through Majemba Gana's territory, and not knowing how the latter was disposed towards him, Mirambo sent a deputation to him with a hundred hoes and a hundred bullets, with the following message, " If you desire peace take the hoes to till your fields ; if you desire war take the bullets, for you will need them all."