Africa . taken down to the coastat Samanga, south of the delta, is of good quality. Kilwa Kivinja and Kilwa Kisiwani, a little north of theninth parallel, are the most important points in the south ofthe Zanzibar possessions. The former is a town of scatteredstone houses and thickly-peopled native huts facing thebroad sand and mud flats of the beach. These places arenotorious in the slave traffic of East Africa; the wholecountry inland behind them as far as Lake Nyassa hasbeen depopulated and desolated by the slave trade. Skele-tons lie all along the routes leading inland, and the beachis stre
Africa . taken down to the coastat Samanga, south of the delta, is of good quality. Kilwa Kivinja and Kilwa Kisiwani, a little north of theninth parallel, are the most important points in the south ofthe Zanzibar possessions. The former is a town of scatteredstone houses and thickly-peopled native huts facing thebroad sand and mud flats of the beach. These places arenotorious in the slave traffic of East Africa; the wholecountry inland behind them as far as Lake Nyassa hasbeen depopulated and desolated by the slave trade. Skele-tons lie all along the routes leading inland, and the beachis strewn with them. The transport of slaves by sea fromthese points, indeed, appears to be at an end; but thestream has not been dried up, only diverted into otherchannels and more toilsome paths along the and Mikindani bays, north of the mouth of theEovuma, are also important points of departure for theinterior; from the former Bishop Steere started for his Walk to the Nyassa country in SLAVE-D HIVING. CHAPTEE XXI. THE EQUATORIAL LAKE REGIONS. 1. General Survey. It is not so very long ago since Africa was lookedupon as a continent almost destitute of water; nor wasit without the greatest surprise that during the last two 308 COMPENDIUM OF GEOGRAPHY AND TRAVEL. decades the restless spirit of modern research graduallyrevealed a vast lake system, stretching from about theequator southwards to the river Zambesi, which, with theexception of the North America chain, is nowhere elseequalled in extent and volume of water. The latest chart of these regions shows us themagnificent Victoria Nyanza as the queen of these greatinland seas, with the smaller Albert Nyanza to the north-west, and the long and comparatively narrow Tanganyikanearly due south of it, besides a series of other lakes,great and small, amongst which the most striking arethe Bangweolo to the south-west, and the Nyassa on thesouth-east. All these great bodies of fresh water with the inter-mediate lands
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