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THE TANGANIKA TERRITORY. 363
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Itawa, Ujiji, and some portions of Umyamwezi; in Tie Kernel
others, again, as in Kawendi, ■ Marungu, Ufipa, it is but Argumeut.
thinly populated. By a moderate estimate, it would
be twenty-five to the square mile, making a population
for the entire basin.of 2,325,000.
The surface of the lake is at an altitude. of 2750
feet above the sea. On the north-west it is bounded
by mountains rising 2500 feet higher, to the southwest
by heights ranging from 1500 to 2000 feet.
Along the east the average height of the table land is
1500 feet above the lak e ; on the north is a broad,
funnel-shaped valley leading to the lofty uplands of
Ruanda.
On one half of this territory cattle are bred in
numerous herds. The Warundi, Wahha, Wazige', and
Wanya-Ruanda, a very superior race of people, could
not exist without their cattle. The Wajiji and Wan-
yamwezi, who are allied to them, also affect a pastoral
life, while they do not neglect the production of
cereals, sorghum, millet, maize. At Ujiji, Uvira, and .
Uzige, are trading communities of A rabs; on the west
side of Tanganika is a London Missionary station, .
About midway on the east is a station of the African
International Association.
At Ujiji ends the oil-palm, the other productions
of the land being similar to the Upper Congo section.
On the eastern portion of the basin cereals form the
staple food of the inhabitants, while on its western
portion the principal food consists of bananas and
cassava.