Note 106 — Chapter XI · COMPARATIVE ANTHROPOLOGY (ETHNOLOGY) OF ZANZIBAR—THE WASAWAHILI AND THE SLAVE RACES.
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Mr Cooley (Geog. 37) tells us that ‘Conda, in Congoese and also in Sawahili, means hill.’ It certainly does not in Zanzibar, where Konda is an adjective, lean or thin. Konde means the fist (in Arabic جِمع and Khonde is applied to a Shamba or plantation.