12/29 Zungomero, bisected by the Mgeta, lies on flat ground, in a very pretty amphitheatre of hills, S.lat.7 deg. It is extremely fertile, and very populous, affording everything that man can wish, even to the cocoa and papwa fruits; but the slave-trade has almost depopulated it, and turned its once flourishing gardens into jungles. As I have already said, the people who possess these lands are cowardly by nature, and that is the reason why they are so much oppressed. |