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Zanzibar; city, island, and coast. Vol. 2 (of 2)

Note 29 — Chapter V · FROM MOMBASAH TO THE PANGANI RIVER.

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The Moslems of the islands and the coast call all the pagans Washenzi, and the word is opposed to Mháji—a Moslem generally—and to Wazumba, the Wasawihili of the northern region. On the continent it is, I have said, applied to a servile or helot caste, originally from the S. West of the Panga-ni river, and afterwards settled in Bondei.

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