122 LIVINGSTONE'S LAST JOURNALS. [Chap. V. 



We found our visitors so disagreeable that I was glad to 

 march ; they were Waiyau, and very impudent, demanding 

 gun or game medicine to enable them to shoot well : they 

 came into the hut uninvited, and would take no denial. It 

 is probable that the Arabs drive a trade in gun medicine : 

 it is inserted in cuts made above the thumb, and on the fore- 

 arm. Their superciliousness shows that they feel themselves 

 to be the dominant race. The Manganja trust to their old 

 bows and arrows ; they are much more civil than Ajawa or 

 Waiyau. 



[The difference between these two great races is here well 

 worthy of the further notice which Livingstone no doubt 

 Avould have given it. As a rule, the Manganja are extremely 

 clever in all the savage arts and manufactures. Their looms 

 turn out a strong serviceable cotton cloth ; their iron weapons 

 and implements show a taste for design which is not reached 

 by the neighbouring tribes, and in all matters that relate to 

 husbandry they excel : but in dash and courage they are 

 deficient. The Waiyau, on the contrary, have round apple- 

 shaped heads, as distinguished from the long well-shaped 

 heads of the poor Manganja ; they are jocular and merry, 

 given to travelling, and bold in war — these are qualities 

 which serve them well as they are driven from pillar to post 

 through slave wars and internal dissension, but they have 

 not the brains of the Manganja, nor the talent to make their 

 mark in any direction where brains are wanted.] 



A Manganja man, who formerly presented us with the 

 whole haul of his net, came and gave me four fowls : some 

 really delight in showing kindness. When we came near 

 the bottom of the pass Tapiri, Kimsusa's men became loud 

 against his venturing further ; he listened, then burst away 

 from them : he listened again, then did the same ; and 

 as he had now got men for us, I thought it better to let 

 him c;o. 



