ABSTRACT

For the Anthropological institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Edward Coode Hore prepared a description and comparison of the customs of the peoples encountered in the interior. He first discussed the tribes living between the coast and Lake Tanganyika, observing that many of their less admirable qualities were derived from contacts and intruders from the coast. This industry is carried on, as well in log canoes as in small rafts, or catamarans, made of the trunks of the pith tree pegged together. Five or six of these small trunks form a raft sufficient and safe for one or two men, with their fishing-tackle, and are easily drawn up on to the beach, or into the villages when not in use. The people of Ukawendi are much scattered, and have the name everywhere of being robbers. They have little or no trade anywhere upon their seaport, hence it is known to them only as a way of access for probable enemies.