ABSTRACT

Behobeho, well merits description, not only from the beauty of its surroundings, but also from the sorrowful event which marked their stay there. The weather is ever varied by cold breezes from the mountains, alternating with damp, sickly, fever-laden winds from the east. Mgunda is situated at the head of a beautiful valley, with the picturesque peaks of the Rufuta Mountains to the north, from which two spurs of low densely-wooded hills trend south, forming the valley of the Msendasi stream. In the high mountains to the north-east live the Walugulu. Unfortunately for the Wakhutu, nature favours them in one sense, it fights against them in another. Their country lies among the hills which stretch along the base of the high coast mountain ranges. The weather is ever varied by cold breezes from the mountains, alternating with damp, sickly, fever-laden winds from the east.