They profess ignorance of any tradition of the water having stood higher.

Their traditions say that they came originally from the west, or west north-west, which they call "Maravi;" and that their forefathers taught them to make nets and kill fish.

They have no trace of any teaching by a higher instructor; no carvings or writings on the rocks; and they never heard of a book until we came among them.

Their forefathers never told them that after or at death they went to God, but they had heard it said of such a one who died, "God took him." _18th September, 1866._--We embarked the whole party in eight canoes, and went up the Lake to the point of junction between it and the prolongation of Nyassa above it, called Massangano ("meetings"), which took us two hours.

A fishing party there fled on seeing us, though we shouted that we were a travelling party (or "Olendo ").
Mukate's people here left us, and I walked up to the village of the fugitives with one attendant only.