The natives of British Central Africa . Ju face p. 32. < o To face p. 33 INHABITANTS 33 Anguru are localised on the east side of Shirwa roundthe Luasi hills, and are a sort of mongrel lot, as thesehills seem to have been a sort of junction of Yao, whenthey were driven from the north, Lomwe driven fromthe east, and Manganja, on the Shirwa shores. TheAnguru speak a dialect of Nyanja, the Alolo oneof Makua, a language, as Father Torrend points out,resembling Sechwana in several important particu-lars, in which the intervening languages differ fromboth. The Lomwe country was for many yearsharas
The natives of British Central Africa . Ju face p. 32. < o To face p. 33 INHABITANTS 33 Anguru are localised on the east side of Shirwa roundthe Luasi hills, and are a sort of mongrel lot, as thesehills seem to have been a sort of junction of Yao, whenthey were driven from the north, Lomwe driven fromthe east, and Manganja, on the Shirwa shores. TheAnguru speak a dialect of Nyanja, the Alolo oneof Makua, a language, as Father Torrend points out,resembling Sechwana in several important particu-lars, in which the intervening languages differ fromboth. The Lomwe country was for many yearsharassed by slavers, and its people were continuallyat war with one another—so much so that, in 1894, thevillagers did not know the names of hills more thana days journey from their own homes, and travellerscould not get guides except to the next village aheadof them. Perhaps this state of things accounts for thecomparatively poor physique of the Alolo. The Batumbuka. These are a set of people con-sidered by Sir H. H. Johnston as indigenous to theplatea
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