besi are Makûa, as we learn from the statement of DosSanctos
as well as from late writers. The borderers of this river were
described by the officers who accompanied Captain Owen,
who says, “ the further our travellers advanced from the
coast, the more they observed the natives to improve in their appearance.
Of those of Marooro, many were firmly knit, stout
and elegantly proportioned : some were perfect models ofithè
human form. They go naked, with the exception of a piece
of cloth, barely sufficient for decency of appearance. ' Some
have their beard shaved, others only in part, but many not
at all* In this latter case the hair, for it is worthy of remark
that they have not wool, grows long^ is neatly plaited^ and
hanging in slender tails, communicates to the countenance a
wild and sayage aspect, in this resembling the people of Madagascar,
whose hair is neither wool nor hair, and is dressed in
general in a similar manner.”* The variation* here noted from
woolly to merely frizzled hair, or the difference of description; is
often discoverable in the accounts of-cognate races, or. .of, the
same tribe seen by different travellers. The mode. of .dressing-
the hair practised by these people is similar- to tha.t uéëd; by
the Kosahs, as well as by the nations of the mountainous vengions,
particularly the Mocaronga, who will be mentioned in
the next section.
“ Wild as the Makooa are in a savage state,” says Mr. Salt,
u it is astonishing to observe how docile and serviceable they
become as slaves, and when enrolled as soldiers, how quickly
their improvement advances.”
Mr. Salt has also described another tribe, termed Monjou,
inhabiting the country further in the interior, and, as he supposed,
situated in a north-easterly direction from Mosambique.
Persons of this tribe told him that they, were acquainted with
traders of other nations, named Evesi and Maravi, who had
travelled far enough inland to see large waters, white people,
and horses. He says the Monj ou are Negroes of the ugliest
description, having high cheek-bones, thick lips, small knots
of woolly hair, like peppercorns, on their heads, and skins of
a deep, shining black. Mr. Salt has given vocabularies of
* Expedition up the Zambesi, in the Geographical Joumal.
the languages of the Makooa and the Monjou, in which there
appears- tor be sufficient -rbsemblance to prove that they are
only different dialects of one original speech;
The Suhaili, or-, the Sowauli,;as»they are termed by Mr.
\%dt, pile, on the coasfeof Zanzibar, northward ^ith.e Makpoa*
from Magadox#,,. /©^Mng^dasho/^to.the* neighbourhood, of
Mombasa. “ In person they .resemble’the Makooa, being, as
Mr. Salt says,*f of^the true Nqg^p^ace, black,.1 s^®pt, and ill-
favoured. Theiig langdagepsi awoken at thé sea-^pörts ôfi-ïffiàg-
adox©:,4dubaj Lama, and Patfeï b it is. stateGltby.Mr. Bird*
in ra memoir published rin th^Séographiéal, Journal* that thè
Suhaili are Isedn northward iasafaT^as thegcaast f®f| Ajan ; that
they,have;jet-black completions,and woolly hair,, without the
thick lips ©Ç]protruding monthmfi|hiè^egto.'.,.iGaptain.Owen
calls them Sowhylesfe: he says that they arelMohammedans,
and differ in/person and character ■ both-fromithe Arafe^ and
native Africans. ;;
s < 'Notwithstanding the wide deference's in physieabcharaeter
between these nations of the ibjerfropicah coast,iof Africa and
the Amakosah and other southerb* Kafirs, it seeing probable
that’they are branches of one^râeê.: The number^ common
or .resembling words in the vocabularies of -their,'ïesppetiyedan-
guagesîj which have been a s^ e t *Gol$e^ied, .are sufficientjfo
prd^e -some cönnéxion or affinityybeiwéén dhem, - and’ to
render it highly probable that a closer^ip^emblance., will ^è
found on further inquiry.
•• Some other races are mentioned1 by -Dos panetos- in the!in-
labd country behind the Mékoöa, and between them'â'pd thè
high mountainous region. Am ^I, ,are tt^e, Mongos,
who. may perhaps« be the people termed by Mr,. Salt, Monjous,
The Mumbos are a- numerous and very savage people, who
live to the east and north-east ofTete, ançl at^Chicoronga.
They are cannibals, according to*. I)o§ . Sanc|.QS,, and have in
their town a slaughter-house, iwhere.:.they butcher men every
day.
“ The Zimbas, or Mazimbas, are another man-eating*tribe,
near Senna. “ Whilst L was at Senna,” s a y s ,.S a n c to s ,
<rthe Mazimbas warred on some of the Portugais 'friendsy4and
did eate many of them.” “ These are tall, bigge,' and strong,