Kisi

We could see the island called Kisi on our east, apparently a double island, about 15 miles off, and the tops of the trees barely visible on Mpabala on our south-east.

The Last Journals of David Livingstone from 1865 to His Death Ed 1874

We could see the island called Kisi on our east, apparently a double island, about 15 miles off, and the tops of the trees barely visible on Mpabala on our south-east.

The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume I (of 2), 1866-1868 David Livingstone 1843

At one point, a mob gathered outside the compound, demanding that staff belonging to the Kisi tribe be ejected.

After the violence 2011

Instead, it seems that many Njombe-speaking descendants (after 1000 CE its descendants included Hehe, Bena, Sangu, Kinga, and Kisi) became Ruvu-identified in language and culture.

Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE 2008

Among the speech communities outside of Northeast-Coastal who are familiar with these pots are the Kisi, Hehe, and Sonjo of the Njombe subgroup and Matumbi, Mwera, Yao, and Ruihi of Rufiji-Ruvuma, the two most southerly Kaskazi language branches.

Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE 2008

S., and Mbawali, 20 m. long by 3 broad, lies south of Kisi.

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We could not go to Kisi, because, as the canoe-men told us, they had stolen their canoe thence.

The Last Journals of David Livingstone from 1865 to His Death Ed 1874

It was all sea horizon on our south and north, between Lifunge and Mpabala, and between Lifunge and Kisi.

The Last Journals of David Livingstone from 1865 to His Death Ed 1874

On Kisi we observed a dark square mass, which at first I took to be a low hill: it turned out to be a mass of trees (probably the place of sepulture, for the graveyards are always untouched), and shows what a dense forest this land would become were it not for the influence of men.

The Last Journals of David Livingstone from 1865 to His Death Ed 1874

He is an intelligent and pleasant young man, who has been attacked several times by Kitandula, the successor of Nsama of Itawa, and compelled to shift from Motononga to this rivulet Motosi, which flows into the Kisi and thence into Lake Moero.

The Last Journals of David Livingstone from 1865 to His Death Ed 1874