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Originally appearing in Volume V27, Page 564 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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UJIJI , a See also:

town in See also:German See also:East See also:Africa, also known as Kavele, situated on the eastern shores of See also:Lake See also:Tanganyika, in 40 55' S,, 29° 40' E. It is connected with Cape Town by an overland See also:telegraph See also:line. The See also:population (about 14,000) is composed of See also:Arabs and members of numerous Central See also:African tribes. Ujiji is the See also:meeting-point of merchants from all parts of Tanganyika, and the See also:terminus of the See also:caravan route from See also:Dar-es-See also:Salaam. Arabs from See also:Zanzibar made Ujiji their headquarters during the' first See also:half of the 19th See also:century, and it became a See also:great slave and See also:ivory mart. In 1858 See also:Richard See also:Burton and J. H. See also:Speke reached Ujiji from Zanzibar, being the first Europeans to see Lake Tanganyika. In 1869 See also:David See also:Livingstone, coming from the See also:south, arrived at Ujiji, and it was here that H. M. See also:Stanley found him on the 28th of See also:October 1871. In 1890 it came within the German See also:sphere of See also:influence.

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