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 would 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 go.
In three hours and a quarter we had made a clear ascent of 2200 feet above the Lake.