They here call themselves Echewa, and have a different marking from the Atumboka.

The men have the hair dressed as if a number of the hairs of elephants' tails were stuck around the head: the women wear a small lip-ring, and a straw or piece of stick in the lower lip, which dangles down about level with the lower edge of the chin: their clothing in front is very scanty.
The men know nothing of distant places, the Manganja being a very stay-at-home people.

The stockades are crowded with huts, and the children have but small room to play in the narrow spaces between.
_25th November, 1866._--Sunday at Zeore's.

The villagers thought we prayed for rain, which was much needed.

The cracks in the soil have not yet come together by the "welling of soil produced by moisture.