THE EASTERN COAST. 
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from the brow to the neck ; sometimes leaving 
only a tuft on the crown. Their enmity against 
the Portuguese is inveterate, and not excited with- 
out just cause. They fight chiefly with spears, 
darts, and poisoned arrows ; but they have procur- 
ed also a considerable number of muskets. There 
seems little doubt that these are the nation report- 
ed by Campbell and Lichtenstein under the name 
of Macquanas ; though, in that case, they are erro- 
neously stated to belong to the Boshuana race, as 
they are negroes. Their females, however, have, 
in some degree, the curved spine and protruding 
hinder parts of the Hottentot women, whom they 
appear to rival in ugliness. 
Behind the Makooa, and upwards of forty days' 
journey in the interior, are situated the Monjou, 
from whom seems derived the appellation of the 
empire of Monomuji, which, in our old maps, fills 
all the interior of this part of Africa. The Mon- 
jou are negroes of the ugliest description, of a deep 
shining black, with high cheek bones, thick lips, 
and small knots of woolly hair on their heads. Their 
weapons are chiefly bows and arrows, which they 
manage with considerable skill. They have a mode 
of exciting flame by rubbing two pieces of hard 
wood against each other, similar to that described 
by Mr Bruce, as practised by a tribe of Nuba near 
Sennaar. They appeared milder than the Makooa, 
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