ABSTRACT
Africa has been compared to a nut, only hard to deal with from the outside. Once through the shell, and the prize is gained. Few caravans have crossed this tract of country without manifold troubles, as the history of all East African travellers has shown. The Wahehe crossed their southern border-line, and attacked the Warori or Wasango. In every engagement they were victorious. Villages were burned and cattle seized, and like an irresistible wave they swept across the plateau, devastating the entire country. The men wear a small piece of hide over the shoulder, and the women’s dress is reduced to a bunch of grass. The northern outlines of the lake could be clearly discerned; the magnificent plateau escarpment to the east, known as the Livingstone Mountains; and the rich level plain of the Jumbaka to the west, with its silvery winding streams and subtending plateau.
