A Small Tribe Of The Bazizulu, From The South,
Under Dadanga, Have Recently Settled Here And Built A Village.
Some
of their houses are square, and they seem to be on friendly terms
with the Bakoa, who own the country.
They, like the other natives,
cultivate cotton, but of a different species from any we have yet
seen in Africa, the staple being very long, and the boll larger than
what is usually met with; the seeds cohere as in the Pernambuco kind.
They brought the seed with them from their own country, the distant
mountains of which in the south, still inhabited by their fellow-
countrymen, who possess much cattle and use shields, can be seen from
this high ground. These people profess to be children of the great
paramount chief, Kwanyakarombe, who is said to be lord of all the
Bazizulu. The name of this tribe is known to geographers, who derive
their information from the Portuguese, as the Morusurus, and the
hills mentioned above are said to have been the country of
Changamira, the warrior-chief of history, whom no Portuguese ever
dared to approach. The Bazizulu seem, by report, to be brave
mountaineers; nearer the river, the Sidima inhabit the plains; just
as on the north side, the Babimpe live on the heights, about two days
off, and the Makoa on or near the river. The chief of the Bazizulu
we were now with was hospitable and friendly. A herd of buffaloes
came trampling through the gardens and roused up our men; a feat that
roaring lions seldom achieved.
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