296 ANTHROPOLOGY 



The so-called Sena people occupy a large section 

 of the region of Zambezia ; not only the portion 

 bearing the name which has been given to them, 

 but thence eastward towards the sea, and south- 

 ward in the direction of the Pungwe River, if we 

 except a small scarcely recognised division in- 

 habiting the basin of the Vunduzi who call them- 

 selves Wa-Tewe, and have adopted a patois of 

 their own, which is, nevertheless, only a sHght 

 variation of the chi-Sena spoken throughout the 

 limits I have just outlined. 



But although divided by tribal designation, by 

 habit, and, to some extent, by language, it would 

 still be ridiculous to say that there is much differ- 

 ence in the people themselves, or that they are 

 essentially distinct, the one division from the others. 

 That is to say, the physical characteristics of the 

 one tribe are in all respects similar to those of 

 others, and, therefore, an average individual brought 

 from Tete would be, to all intents and purposes, 

 indistinguishable from the representative of a family 

 brought up on the coast. 



Without being of striking physique or muscular 

 development, the Zambezian native as a whole is 

 of a distinctly good type. He is broad-chested, 

 clean-limbed, and not, as a rule, excessively black. 

 The colours most observed are dull chocolate- 

 brown ranging to palish yellow, and indicating, I 

 consider, very considerable European and Arab 

 blood admixture. Of course it must be remem- 

 bered that the Zambezi has, as we have seen in the 

 earlier portion of this book, been the resort of 

 members of pale-skinned races for many centuries, 



