Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Wahinda tribe of Eastern Africa, are mentioned in Richard Francis Burton''s The Lake Regions of Central Africa: A Picture of Exploration, Vol. 2., P. 219...."Of the tribes dwelling about the Nyanaz, ... Remain the Wahinda, a clan or class alluded to in this and a former chapter...The Wahninda (in the singular Muhinda) are, according to some Arabs, a foreign and ruling family, who coming from a distant country, probably in the neighbourhood (sic) of Somaliland, conquerer the lands, and became Sultans. This opinion seems to rest upon physical peculiarities, -- the superiority of the Wahinda in figure, stature, and complexion to their subjects suggesting a difference of origin. Others explain the word Muhinda to mean a cadet of royal family, and call the class Bayt el Saltanah, or the Kingly House. ...