A large cow is kept up there, which is supposed capable of knowing and letting the owners know when war is coming.[30] There is a path up, but it was not visible to us.

The people are all Kanthunda, or climbers, not Maravi.

Kimsusa said that he was the only Maravi chief, but this I took to be an ebullition of beer bragging: the natives up here, however, confirm this, and assert that they are not Maravi, who are known by having markings down the side of the face.
We spent the night at a Kanthunda village on the western side of a mountain called Phunze (the _h_ being an aspirate only).

Many villages are planted round its base, but in front, that is, westwards, we have plains, and there the villages are as numerous: mostly they are within half a mile of each other, and few are a mile from other hamlets.

Each village has a clump of trees around it: this is partly for shade and partly for privacy from motives of decency.