. The world's inhabitants; or, Mankind, animals, and plants; being a popular account of the races and nations of mankind, past and present, and the animals and plants inhabiting the great continents and principal islands. re, bury their deadnear their houses, placing thebody upright and naked in agrave. Their shrieking is of ahorrible description, and theycut off their hair in token ofmourning. The chiefs hold their posi-tion mainly by virtue of war-like prowess, and are warlikecontinually involved character,in strife, in which they usepoisoned arrows, spears, hatchets, and knives. They show g
. The world's inhabitants; or, Mankind, animals, and plants; being a popular account of the races and nations of mankind, past and present, and the animals and plants inhabiting the great continents and principal islands. re, bury their deadnear their houses, placing thebody upright and naked in agrave. Their shrieking is of ahorrible description, and theycut off their hair in token ofmourning. The chiefs hold their posi-tion mainly by virtue of war-like prowess, and are warlikecontinually involved character,in strife, in which they usepoisoned arrows, spears, hatchets, and knives. They show great courage, attacking their enemiesin a body without organisation, and with wild war-cries. The Makuasare especially obstinate in their warfare, fighting to the death, andsacrificing their prisoners, whose flesh they eat raw. They are re-cognised by having a crescent tattooed on their foreheads. They allwear a lip-ring and file their teeth sharp. Some miissionary effortsamong them appear to give promise of good results. The Manganjas are a numerous people inhabiting the uplandsaround the Valley of the Shire. The women almost universally wearthe jjeZeZe, a shell or ring extending the upper lip enormously WOMAN OF ZAMBESI. 66o THE INHABITANTS OF AFRICA. On the Rovuma river it is worn even by the men. As is so usual amongAfrican tribes, they are great believers in the poison ordeal. The shores of Lake Nyassa are thickly peopled, all the people beingtattooed from head to foot with figures which specially mark the Matumboka, who live to the west of the lake, produce little wart-like elevations on the face, giving a very repulsive appearance to the women. It is scarcely as yet possible to take a general view of the people ofthis vast region, except to say that they are for the most part more alliedin race, and far more in language, to the Kaffirs, than to the Soudanese
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