BAGAMOYO TO MPWAPWA. 43 are young men who undertake the journey in order to get sufficient cloth to buy a wife and begin housekeeping ; and very often they change their names as a memorial of their visit to the coast. They are paid in cloths, guns and ammunition, and the hire for the journey from the East Coast to Unyanyembe, Uyui or Ng'uru, is about fifty shillings. When the caravan is made up, one of their number, generally a niampara, is chosen as kilangozi or guide, and if the caravan is a large one there are often two or more vilangozi. My caravan consisted of 120 Wanyamwezi porters, besides other personal attendants, and I had only one kilangozi. The post of kilangozi is considered an honourable one : he of course leads the way, and carries the heaviest load in the caravan, in order to make the pace, which, over fair ground, averages two and a half miles an hour. If those who carried the lighter loads were allowed to go first, they would walk faster than the rest, the caravan would get scattered over the country, the porters would fall a prey to the robbers or lose themselves in the trackless forests. The kilangozi, too, is often employed in negotiations with native chiefs about hongo, and he receives twice as much posho (food allowance) as the other porters. When a caravan is made up and the full number of porters engaged, the loads are distributed among them. The Wanyamwezi wapagazi invariably carry on the shoulder, and consequently prefer long narrow loads which can be