BAGAMOYO TO MPWAPWA. 41 nearly the whole of the territory lying between the Victoria Lake and the East Coast of Africa, extending as far as is known from the equator to about the seventh parallel of south latitude. The Wahumba are the most southerly division of the Masai, and must be carefully distinguished from the "Wahiima, who will be met with farther inland. These Wahumba are much dreaded by the Arab traders and the tribes who live near them, as they are very brave and warlike, and often make raids on their neighbours, and on passing caravans if insufficiently armed.

They are also great hunters, and use bows and poisoned arrows hideously barbed, and carry long shields of buffalo hides. Their women used frequently to visit our camp at Kitange, bringing milk for sale in long narrow cylindrical gourds closely resembling German sausages in appearance; they wore huge coils of thick brass wire on their arms, extending up to the elbow, and large flat coils of the same material round their necks.

The view from our camp at Kitange was a very fine one, the valley at this point being a large basin with a perfect panorama of hills, through which there was no apparent outlet. Some of the hills were barren, or covered only with short grass and a few stunted shrubs, while others were clothed to their summits with forest, consisting chiefly of a kind of ebony. We were delayed at Kitange nearly a week by the sickness of some of our porters, five or