NOTES ON THE EAST COAST BANTU OF ElOmV YEARS AGO. 9I 



rier-tribe of Angola are called " Biheiios," and the Ma-Kua of 

 Mozambique and Nyassaland are called " Makwanos." 



The theory that the Landeens had their origin in Ulunda 

 is strengthened by other instances of Central African tribes 

 finding their way to the south-east coast. Thus we have the 

 filtering down of the Makaranga and other tribes into Natal ; 

 the evidence adduced by the identity of name and traditions 

 of the Baloyi of the Limpopo and of Lealuyi ; the case of the 

 Batonga of the sixteenth century, of which a portion resided 

 in the Middle Zambesi, where they still exist, better known under 

 the Sechuana form of the name Bat oka. and a portion lived on 

 the Lower Zambesi south of Sena, since destroyed as a separate 

 tribe by the Portuguese. Finally we have the evidence of Major 

 A. St. H. Gi'bbon, who points out that his Zambesi 'boys could 

 converse with the Alalunda, while the intermediate languages 

 spoken between this country and their homes were quite foreign 

 to them. 



" This seems to point to the fact that two sections of the same tribe 



have at one time been separated either by the emigration of one of 



them, or by the wedgelike insertion of a great migratory move driving 

 them right and left-"* 



AIeteorological Photographs. — The United States 

 Weather Bureau is forming, in its library at Washington, a 

 collection of meteorological photographs, and the Chief of the 

 Bureau has requested that this intention may be notified to mem- 

 bers of the South African Association, whose contriibutions to 

 the collection will be gladly welcomed. The following will be 

 specially acceptable : Views of meteorological offices, observa- 

 tories, and stations : Pictures of meteorological apparatus ; Por- 

 traits of meteorologists ; Views of their birthplaces and homes ; 

 Views showing the effects of storms, inundations, frosts, heavy 

 snowfalls, etc.; Cloud photographs; Photographs of optical phe- 

 nomena, such as rainbows, haloes, mirages, Brocken spectres, 

 etc. ; Photographs of lightning and its effects ; Photographs of 

 meteorologically interesting pictures in old books, or of early 

 prints and paintings, such as conten^porary pictures of the 

 damage wrought by the Great Stoi'm in England in 1703. Mem- 

 bers who may be willing to present such pictures to the Weather 

 Bureau, or to exchange them for Weather Bureau publicationc, 

 are requested to address their communications to the Chief of 

 the United States Weather Bureau (Library), Washington, 

 D.C. Senders are asked to note on the back of each print as 

 much pertinent information as practicable, and on direct views 

 of meteorological phenomena the place, date, and hour at which 

 each view was taken should be noted, as well as the direction 

 toward which the camera was pointed. 



* "Africa from South to North." vol. ii, p- 36. 



