The majority of the real Makololo have been cut off by fever.

Those who remain are a mere fragment of the people who came to the north with Sebituane.
Migrating from a very healthy climate in the south, they were more subject to the febrile diseases of the valley in which we found them than the black tribes they conquered.

In comparison with the Barotse, Batoka, and Banyeti, the Makololo have a sickly hue.

They are of a light brownish-yellow color, while the tribes referred to are very dark, with a slight tinge of olive.

The whole of the colored tribes consider that beauty and fairness are associated, and women long for children of light color so much, that they sometimes chew the bark of a certain tree in hopes of producing that effect.