We know three places of this name, which fact shows it to be a native word; it seems to mean a place where the water rushes over rocks.

A third village was called Chipanga (a great work), a name identical with the Shupanga of the Portuguese.

This repetition of names may indicate that the same people first took these epithets in their traditional passage from north to south.
At this season of the year the nights are still cold, and the people, having no crops to occupy their attention, do not stir out till long after the sun is up.

At other times they are off to their fields before the day dawns, and the first sound one hears is the loud talking of men and women, in which they usually indulge in the dark to scare off beasts by the sound of the human voice.

When no work is to be done, the first warning of approaching day is the hemp-smoker's loud ringing cough.
Having been delayed one morning by some negotiation about guides, who were used chiefly to introduce us to other villages, we two whites walked a little way ahead, taking the direction of the stream.