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Title: Africa and its inhabitants
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Reclus, Elisée, 1830-1905 Keane, A. H. (Augustus Henry), 1833-1912
Subjects: Ethnology
Publisher: London : J.S. Virtue
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120 Miles. of the route to the coast are also daily diminishing, and this journey, which evenin 1880 still took about six months by caravan, may now be made in about fortydays. The chief inconvenience is the tsetse fly, which infests a part of theway, and thus prevents pack or draft animals from being employed in the transittrade.
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U-NTAMEZI. •i.-;- South of U-Vinza the districts of U-Galla, on the river of like uamc, andU-Kahwendc, on the east side of Tanganyika, still lie within the Mulufjarazibasiu. Here are no large villages or imporlaiit markets ; hut further south onthe coast lies the European station oC KnrciiKi, foiiiidcd in ;s7,) l,y d,,. Inter-national African Association, and afterwards ceded to the French CutUolicmissionaries, but since 188G under the sovereignty of Germany. This place,crowning a small hill at the mouth of the liume, has already acquired u certainhistoric celebrity, thanks to the explorers who have made it the centre of theirexpeditions. When the fort was erected the bluff stood at the edge of the water,which has retired several hundred yards, since tho lake has again begnn to sendits overflow through the Lu-Kuga emissary. In the neighbourhood a largenative village has sprung up about 2 miles from the coast, and the slopes of thehill and surrounding low-lying tracts have been laid

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