Kauma says that his people are partly Kanthunda and partly Chipeta.

The first are the mountaineers, the second dwellers on the plains.

The Chipeta have many lines of marking: they are all only divisions of the great Manganja tribe, and their dialects differ very slightly from that spoken by the same people on the Shire.

The population is very great and very ceremonious.

When we meet anyone he turns aside and sits down: we clap the hand on the chest and say, "Re peta--re peta," that is, "we pass," or "let us pass:" this is responded to at once by a clapping of the hands together.