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UNYAMWEZI , a region of See also:German See also:East See also:Africa, lying S. of See also:Victoria See also:Nyanza and E. of See also:Lake See also:Tanganyika. It is mentioned as See also:early as the 16th See also:century by the Portuguese and by See also:Antonio Pigafetta, under the name Munemugi or " See also:Land of the See also:- MOON (a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Mond, Du. maan, Dan. maane, &c., and cognate with such Indo-Germanic forms as Gr. µlip, Sans. ma's, Irish mi, &c.; Lat. uses luna, i.e. lucna, the shining one, lucere, to shine, for the moon, but preserves the word i
- MOON, SIR RICHARD, 1ST BARONET (1814-1899)
Moon," which is the exact See also:equivalent of the name—Wu-nya-mwezi—by
which the land is known to its own See also:people. It is See also:part of the See also:plateau between the two See also:great rift-valleys of East Africa, is See also:rich in See also:woods and grass, and has many villages surrounded by well cultivated farms and gardens. The western portions, however, are somewhat swampy and unhealthy. The people of Unyamwezi, called Wanyamwezi, are See also:Bantu-negroes of See also:medium See also:size and See also:negroid features, but with See also:long noses and See also:curly rather than woolly See also:hair, suggestive of mixed See also:blood. Dwelling on the See also:main road from See also:Bagamoyo to Tanganyika, the route by which J. H. See also:Speke, See also:Richard See also:Burton, J. A. See also:- GRANT (from A.-Fr. graunter, O. Fr. greanter for creanter, popular Lat. creantare, for credentare, to entrust, Lat. credere, to believe, trust)
- GRANT, ANNE (1755-1838)
- GRANT, CHARLES (1746-1823)
- GRANT, GEORGE MONRO (1835–1902)
- GRANT, JAMES (1822–1887)
- GRANT, JAMES AUGUSTUS (1827–1892)
- GRANT, ROBERT (1814-1892)
- GRANT, SIR ALEXANDER
- GRANT, SIR FRANCIS (1803-1878)
- GRANT, SIR JAMES HOPE (1808–1895)
- GRANT, SIR PATRICK (1804-1895)
- GRANT, U
- GRANT, ULYSSES SIMPSON (1822-1885)
Grant, H. M. See also:Stanley and others travelled, and having from early times had commercial relations with the See also:Arabs, the Wanyamwezi are more civilized than the neighbouring races. They practise See also:tattooing, See also:file or See also:extract the upper incisor See also:teeth, and load their legs and arms with See also:brass See also:wire rings. The men look after the flocks and poultry, while the See also:women do the See also:- FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
- FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
- FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
- FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
- FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
- FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
- FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
- FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
- FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
- FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
- FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)
field-See also:work. They often keep bees; in some cases the hives are inside the huts, and the bees See also:form an efficient See also:protection against intruders. See also:Inheritance is to the See also:direct issue, not as is often the See also:case among See also:Negro races to the See also:nephew. In some parts, one of twins is always killed. On Stanley's first visit in 1871, the See also:Zanzibar Arabs were predominant in the See also:country, but later the natives See also:rose and, under Mirambo, who from a See also:common See also:porter rose to be a conquering See also:chief—earning for himself the See also:title of the " See also:Black See also:Bonaparte "—a Negro See also:kingdom was formed. Since 1890 the country has been under German See also:control and the See also:power of the native chiefs greatly curtailed. As a people the Wanyamwezi are extremely vigorous and have shown great capacity for expansion, being energetic and enterprising.
See H. Brode, Tippoo Tib: the See also:Story of his Career in Central Africa (1907); See also:Sir H. H. See also:Johnston, The See also:Uganda See also:Protectorate (1902); Sir See also:Charles See also:Eliot, The East Africa Protectorate (1905).
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