UJIJI  , a

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