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The Waijasi of whom we saw a specimen in the shape of an old woman, with her upper lip edged with a row of small holes, at Karague occupy a large island on this lake named Gasi, and sometimes come to visit Kamrasi. Ugungu, a dependency of Kamrasi's, occupies this side, the lake, and on the opposite side is Ulegga; beyond which, in about 2 deg. N. lat. And 28 deg.
Widney suggests, might sensibly increase the humidity and lower the temperature of an extensive region which is now an arid and desolate wilderness. Soil below Rock. One of the most singular changes of natural surface effected by man is that observed by Beechey and by Barth at Lin Tefla, and near Gebel Genunes, in the district of Ben Gasi, in Northern Africa.
Rumanika next introduced me to an old woman who came from the island of Gasi, situated in the little Luta Nzige. Both her upper and lower incisors had been extracted, and her upper lip perforated by a number of small holes, extending in an arch from one corner to the other.
Following the coastline, we touched at the villages of Gasi, Wasin, Tanga where I had my first flirtations with the hippopotami, of which more hereafter and Tangata, to inspect ruins and make inquiries about the interior condition of the country.
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