The universal geography : earth and its inhabitants

TIIK t.om'\vt:>: .\xi> vaos. 2onfrom llio council of chiefs before daring to enter tin ir toiiitory, ;is to do so withoutthis precaution was considered certain death. The depopuhitcd borderlandson their frontiers were also stated to be carefully guarded by elephant-hunters,instructed to kill all intruders of other races or tribes. But all this was idlepopular report. The Lomwcs are, on the contrary, now knowii to be a peace,loving and even timid people, who are harassed by their ^lakua neighbours.Kg. 87. Landscape in- LiThey are even threatened with extinction at no distant date, unless peace borestored to this distracted land under the infliicnce of the European traders ormissionaries.For intelligence and industry the Yaos ("Wa-IIiyao), called also Ajawas, certainlytake the foremost rank among all the Slozambique populations.The upperand Ljcu Valley forms the chief domain of these aborigines, who were fonnerly apowerful nation, but who, like their neighbours, have suffered greatly from the