Excerpt from Winning a Primitive People: Sixteen Years' Work Among the Warlike Tribe of the Ngoni and the Senga and Tumbuka Peoples of Central Africa The other tribe, the Tumbuka, in whose land the Ngoni finally settled, are an example of those whose history is being lost to the world because, through internal dissensions, they have ceased to have any disciplined unity. They represent the weak and more effeminate tribes of Central Africa, and are a strong contrast to the robust vehemence of the warlike peoples of the South. Their customs give one some idea of the miserable social structure Of a tribe which acknowledged no ruling head, and which was held together by the minute restraints of magical superstitions. I have endeavoured to make the conditions of life among these people more interesting by relating the greater part 'ji the history in the form of personal narrative, and may seem, therefore, not to have given the acknowledgment which is due to my able colleagues in the country. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.