Records of South Eastern Africa Collected in Various Libraries And Archive Dep
Records of South Eastern Africa Collected in Various Libraries And Archive Dep
George Mccall Theal
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This Kaffir lives on these heights in great security, and has no need of anything, for the laad yields him all the necessaries of life. The people of these mountains speak the same language as the Vumos and Anzetes, their neighbours, and are generally, both men and women, of such great stature that they look like giants. The two rivers which form the streamers at the end of the butterfly unite, and two days journey farther up another branches oif which flows from Anzete to Vumo, and cuts that t...ract of land through the middle. Upon this river lives a king called Angomanes, whose country extends towards the west ; and the river runs at the foot of some mountains, upon whose skirts are several villages. We were told by a Portuguese who went to trade up this river in a vessel that he came upon the people of these villages, who were fishing in small craft, and he noticed that when they required anything from the shore they moved their boats to a spot whence they could be heard, and gave certain calls and whistles, upon which the people from the villages brought all they required, for they understand each other by these sounds ; nevertheless they have a language of their own, very different from that of all the other kingdoms.
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