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YAOS, or AJAWA

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 904 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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YAOS, or AJAWA , a See also:Bantu-See also:Negroid See also:people of See also:east-central See also:Africa, whose See also:home is the See also:country 'around the upper reaches of the Rovuml See also:river, and the See also:north of Portuguese East Africa. They are an enterprising and intelligent See also:race, and have spread into See also:British territory See also:south of See also:Lake See also:Nyasa and throughout the See also:Shire districts. They are the tallest and strongest of the natives in the See also:Mozambique country, have negroid features and faces which are noticeable for their roundness, and, for Africans, have See also:light skins. They have See also:long been popular among Europeans as See also:carriers and servants. They earned, however, a See also:bad name as slave-traders, and gave much trouble to the British authorities in Nyasaland until 1896, when they were reduced to submission. They do not See also:tattoo except for tribal marks on their foreheads. The See also:women See also:wear disks of See also:ivory or burnished See also:lead in the sides of their nostrils, and some, probably of Anyanja origin, disfigure the See also:lip with the pelele or lip-See also:ring. The Yaos have elaborate ceremonies of See also:initiation for the youth of both sexes. They See also:bury their dead in a contracted position, the See also:grave being roofed with logs and See also:earth sprinkled over; in the See also:case of a See also:rich See also:man, some of his See also:property is buried with him and the See also:rest is inherited by his eldest See also:sister's son. See See also:Miss A. See also:Werner, The Natives of British Central Africa (1906); See also:Sir H. H.

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Johnston, British Central Africa (1897); H. L. See also:Duff, Nyasaland under the See also:Foreign See also:Office (1903). For the Yao See also:language see BANTU See also:LANGUAGES. YA'QUBI [Ahmad See also:ibn abi Ya'qub ibn Ja'far ibn Wahb ibn Wadih] (9th See also:century), Arab historian and geographer, was a See also:great-See also:grandson of Wa41ih, the freedman of the See also:caliph Mansur. Until 873 he lived in See also:Armenia and See also:Khorasan; then he travelled in See also:India, See also:Egypt and the Maghrib, where he died in 891. His See also:history is divided into two parts. In the first he gives a comprehensive See also:account of the pre-See also:Mahommedan and non-Mahommedan peoples, especially of their See also:religion and literature. For the See also:time of the patriarchs his source is now seen to be the See also:Syriac See also:work published by C. Bezold as See also:Die SchatzhOhle. In his account of India he is the first to give an account of the stories of Kalila and Dimna, and of Sindibad (Sinbad). When treating of See also:Greece he gives many extracts from the philosophers (cf.

M. Klamroth in the Zeitschrift der deutsclzen morgenlandischen Gesellschaft, vols. xl. and x1i.). The second See also:

part contains Mahommedan history up to 872, and is neither extreme nor unfair, although he inherited Shi'ite leanings from his great-grandfather. The work is characterized by its detailed account of some provinces, such as Armenia and Khorasan, by its astronomical details and its quotations from religious authorities rather than poets. Edition by T. Houtsma (2 vols., See also:Leiden, 1883). Ya'qubi's See also:geography, the Kitdb ul-Buldan, contains a description of the Maghrib, with a full account of the larger cities and much topographical and See also:political See also:information (ed. M. de See also:Goeje, Leiden, 1892). (G. W.

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