218 Wild Life in Central Africa. 



Mkumbi, all mentioned here. He got his name at the- 

 time the Angoni were preparing for a raid, and the word 

 Shauri means sending out a party to see if the enemy is 

 about. 



Mkumbi, yet another son of Mpseni, means clouds, and 

 he was brought into the world on a cloudy day. 



The old Angoni name among themselves, and other 

 tribes, was Mazite, and it was a dreaded word long ago 

 in this part of Africa, for the Angoni are descended from 

 the Zulus of Natal, probably the finest race of savages in 

 the world, as they are splendidly built men with plenty of 

 pluck and fighting qualities. 



A part of the Zulu race split up and trekked north. 

 Some stopped in Matabeleland and formed that nation,, 

 which lost its paramount chief Lobengula when the whites 

 occupied that country. Then others went farther on and 

 crossed the Zambesi and settled in different parts of 

 Central Africa under different chiefs. 



One lot is found round Dedza, in the southern part of 

 Central Angoniland, and they are called Ngabi's section. 

 Another big detachment settled in the country round Fort 

 Manning, in Nyasaland, and Fort Jameson in North- 

 Eastern Rhodesia. This is known as Mpseni's section. 

 Then another went farther north still, and formed 

 Mombera's section; and, strange to say, internecine war 

 often was carried on between all these people who belonged 

 to the same tribe. It is said that the Awemba in the northern 

 parts of North-Eastern Rhodesia and the Masai, of British 

 East Africa, are of Zulu blood, but I have not sufficient 

 knowledge of ethnology to state whether this is so or not. 



The tribal customs of the Angoni are most interesting, 

 and these have often a great amount of common-sense 

 intermingled with superstitions and old myths. 



When the young boys and girls reach a marriageable age 

 they marry, as do most savage races. A young girl is 

 called a bhuto, and at the age of puberty she is known as a 

 namwali. Long ago the men did not marry at such an 

 early age as they do now, as their thoughts were more bent 



