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Central African Mission.

stone house upon it, known as Mbweni. The house is in very bad repair, and the value of the property was almost entirely destroyed by the cyclone. Out of 600 cocoa-nut trees, only 19 were left standing.

6. At Magila an iron house and some native buildings. The land is occupied under a special authority from the then King, which is almost the only right in land capable of being acquired among the Shambalas.

7. At Mworongo, the landing-place for Magila, we have helped Munyi Hatibu to build an upper room to his house, on condition that we have the use of it on our journeys to and fro.