Everything indicated a very humid climate, and the people warned us that, as the rains were near, we were likely to be prevented from returning by the country becoming flooded and impassable.
Villages, as usual encircled by euphorbia hedges, were numerous, and a great deal of grain had been cultivated around them.

Domestic fowls, in plenty, and pigeons with dovecots like those in Egypt were seen.

The people call themselves Matumboka, but the only difference between them and the rest of the Manganja is in the mode of tattooing the face.

Their language is the same.

Their distinctive mark consists of four tattooed lines diverging from the point between the eyebrows, which, in frowning, the muscles form into a furrow.