34 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ANATOMICAL AND ANTHROPOLOGICAL 



A SYNOPSIS OF A EEPOBT BY G. A. TUENEE, M.B., D.P.H., ON 

 THE NATIVES OF POETUGUESE EAST AFEICA, SOUTH OF 

 LATITUDE 22. 



By A. G. STEWART, M.A., Secretary of the Society. 

 (Eead 15th June, 1907.) 



The natives of Portuguese East Africa belong mainly to four 

 races : the Myambaams, the Mtyopis, the Shangaans and Lourenpo 

 Marques boys. The Myambaams are a very mixed people. Of the 

 Mtyopis some are pure, but the majority have Shangaan or other 

 blood in their veins. The Shangaans are almost pure Zulus. In very 

 early times an off- branch of the Zulu army marched north and settled, 

 some in British Central Africa and Uganda, others farther south in 

 Gazaland. From this latter group the Shangaans are descended. 

 They marched south and settled in Portuguese East Africa, driving 

 the former inhabitants before them. The natives are generally good- 

 natured, lazy but honest, and form a law-abiding and well-behaved 

 community. In common with most native races, they are exceedingly 

 superstitious. No sickness is put down to natural causes ; witchcraft 

 is always supposed to be at the bottom of the trouble. Judged from 

 a European standpoint, they are absolutely devoid of morals, but they 

 have a code of their own, to which they strictly adhere. Physically 

 they vary somewhat. The Louren9o Marques boys and Shangaans 

 are superior to the others. Apart from tribal differences in physique, 

 natives from the coast are superior to those dwelling inland, perhaps 

 depending on the fact that the former have a certain amount of Arab 

 blood, derived from the old East Coast traders. 



Clothing and Diet. Many of the natives now work in the mines 



