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Updated: July 2, 2026

Casembe sent me about a hundredweight of the small fish Nsipo, which seems to be the whitebait of our country; it is a little bitter when cooked alone, but with ground-nuts is a tolerable relish: we can buy flour with these at Chikumbi's. The oil-palm grows wild in Pemba. A chief named Moené Ungu, who admires the Arabs, sent his children to Zanzibar to be instructed to read and write.

David Livingstone - The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume I (of 2), 1866-1868