ABSTRACT
The village occupies a small piece of ground gained from the lake by the debris brought down from the hills during the rainy season. The precipitous mountains rise in picturesque peaks and serrated masses, clothed towards the lake with forest, and over these come tumbling many noisy cascades. Makula’s people are not Wachungu as supposed by Elton and Cotterill, but Wakinga, who emigrated for political reasons from the high mountains north of the lake, and took possession of the fertile tract beside Nyassa. The river system of the Zambesi is represented by the streams which flow to Nyassa and that of the Congo by those which flow to Bangweolo. Round the south end of Tanganyika a sudden change takes place in the rocks. At Tanganyika, as beside the Rufiji, the sight of a Watuta dress or cry was sufficient to carry fear into the hearts of men and disarm resistance.
