Ngumi ls­land.-This is­land is close to Koyama, its great­est length be­ing 41 miles and breadth 1 mile. It is un­in­hab­ited save by two or three fish­er­men. Wa­ter is ob­tained from Koyama. The is­land pos­sesses con­sid­er­able ru­ins of a walled-in vil­lage. In about 1500-1600 the is­land was bom­barded and de­stroite by Por­toguese navy it is of no in­ter­est save with ref­er­ence to the leg­end as­so­ci­ated with the mosque. The in­hab­i­tants traded in ivory and slaves with a white race: the tusks were packed in the long mat­ting-bags used for grain. On one oc­ca­sion a cargo was taken, but the bags con­tained but one tusk each and were packed with camel and other bones. The traders sailed, and on their re­turn bom­barded the vil­lage, de­stroy­ing all the in­hab­i­tants. One woman ran for sanc­tu­ary to the mosque, pray­ing that she might be saved from the raiders; her an­swer was her trans­for­ma­tion into stone. The stone has now dis­ap­peared, but is stated to have stood near the Ki­bla : it has been re­ported as still ex­is­tent, but its where­abouts kept se­cret. From this leg­end As­tarte wor­ship has been ar­gued, some­what un­war­ranta bly. Men de­sirous of chil­dren burn in­cense be­fore the ru­ined shrine. The Ba­juns are un­will­ing to clean the old stone wells in that each well de­mands a life