Exploring Microsoft Office 2016 Volume 1 Exploring For Office 2016 Series
Exploring Microsoft Office 2016 Volume 1 Exploring For Office 2016 Series
Exploring Microsoft Office 2016 Volume 1 Exploring For Office 2016 Series
Glossary 1229
Index 1241
Brief Contents vii
Contents
Windows 10
■ CHAPTER ONE
Working with an Operating System: Getting Started
with Microsoft® Windows® 10 2
CASE STUDY CEDAR GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL 2 WINDOWS SYSTEM AND SECURITY FEATURES 40
WINDOWS 10 FUNDAMENTALS 4 Working with Security Settings and Software 40
Understanding the Windows 10 Interface 4 Working with Administrative Tools 44
Managing and Using the Desktop and Components 11 HANDS-ON EXERCISE 3
Using Windows 10 Search Features 15 Windows System and Security Features 48
HANDS-ON EXERCISE 1 CHAPTER OBJECTIVES REVIEW 51
Windows 10 Fundamentals 19 KEY TERMS MATCHING 53
FILE MANAGEMENT 28 MULTIPLE CHOICE 54
Using File Explorer 28 PRACTICE EXERCISES 55
Selecting, Copying, and Moving Multiple Files MID-LEVEL EXERCISES 59
and Folders 33 BEYOND THE CLASSROOM 61
Compressing Files and Folders 34 CAPSTONE EXERCISE 62
HANDS-ON EXERCISES 2
File Management 36
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Microsoft Office Word 2016
■ CHAPTER ONE Introduction to Word: Organizing a Document 130
CASE STUDY SWAN CREEK NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE 130 HANDS-ON EXERCISES 3
INTRODUCTION TO WORD PROCESSING 132 Document Settings and Properties 180
Beginning and Editing a Document 133 CHAPTER OBJECTIVES REVIEW 185
Customizing Word 142 KEY TERMS MATCHING 186
HANDS-ON EXERCISES 1 MULTIPLE CHOICE 187
Introduction to Word Processing 146 PRACTICE EXERCISES 188
DOCUMENT ORGANIZATION 153 MID-LEVEL EXERCISES 192
Using Features That Improve Readability 153 BEYOND THE CLASSROOM 195
Viewing a Document in Different Ways 159 CAPSTONE EXERCISE 196
HANDS-ON EXERCISES 2
Document Organization 165
DOCUMENT SETTINGS AND PROPERTIES 172
Modifying Document Properties 172
Prepare a Document for Distribution 174
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■ CHAPTER FOUR Collaboration and Research: Communicating and
Producing Professional Papers 332
CASE STUDY LITERATURE ANALYSIS 332 ONLINE DOCUMENT COLLABORATION 364
RESEARCH PAPER BASICS 334 Using OneDrive and Word Online 364
Using a Writing Style and Acknowledging Sources 334 Sharing and Collaborating on Documents 370
Creating and Modifying Footnotes and Endnotes 340 HANDS-ON EXERCISES 3
Exploring Special Features 343 Online Document Collaboration 382
HANDS-ON EXERCISES 1 CHAPTER OBJECTIVES REVIEW 388
Research Paper Basics 346 KEY TERMS MATCHING 389
DOCUMENT TRACKING 353 MULTIPLE CHOICE 390
Reviewing a Document 353 PRACTICE EXERCISES 391
Tracking Changes 357 MID-LEVEL EXERCISES 395
BEYOND THE CLASSROOM 398
HANDS-ON EXERCISES 2
CAPSTONE EXERCISE 399
Document Tracking 360
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■ CHAPTER THREE Charts: Depicting Data Visually 532
CASE STUDY COMPUTER JOB OUTLOOK 532 Modifying the Data Source 575
CHART BASICS 534 Creating and Customizing Sparklines 577
Selecting the Data Source 534 HANDS-ON EXERCISES 3
Choosing a Chart Type 536 Chart Design and Sparklines 580
Moving, Sizing, and Printing a Chart 548
CHAPTER OBJECTIVES REVIEW 583
HANDS-ON EXERCISES 1 KEY TERMS MATCHING 585
Chart Basics 552 MULTIPLE CHOICE 586
CHART ELEMENTS 558 PRACTICE EXERCISES 587
Adding, Editing, and Formatting Chart Elements 559 MID-LEVEL EXERCISES 591
HANDS-ON EXERCISES 2 BEYOND THE CLASSROOM 594
Chart Elements 569 CAPSTONE EXERCISE 595
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■ CHAPTER TWO Tables and Queries in Relational Databases:
Designing Databases and Extracting Data 732
CASE STUDY BANK AUDIT 732 Understanding Query Sort Order 775
TABLE DESIGN, CREATION, AND MODIFICATION 734 Running, Copying, and Modifying a Query 776
Designing a Table 734 HANDS-ON EXERCISES 3
Creating and Modifying Tables and Single-Table Queries 778
Working with Data 738
MULTITABLE QUERIES 782
HANDS-ON EXERCISES 1 Creating a Multitable Query 782
Table Design, Creation, and Modification 744 Modifying a Multitable Query 784
MULTIPLE-TABLE DATABASES 749 HANDS-ON EXERCISES 4
Sharing Data 749 Multitable Queries 788
Establishing Table Relationships 754
CHAPTER OBJECTIVES REVIEW 792
HANDS-ON EXERCISES 2 KEY TERMS MATCHING 794
Multiple-Table Databases 759 MULTIPLE CHOICE 795
SINGLE-TABLE QUERIES 767 PRACTICE EXERCISES 796
Creating a Single-Table Query 767 MID-LEVEL EXERCISES 802
Using the Query Wizard 770 BEYOND THE CLASSROOM 806
Specifying Query Criteria for Different Data Types 773 CAPSTONE EXERCISE 807
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Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2016
■ CHAPTER ONE Introduction to PowerPoint: Creating a
Basic Presentation 924
CASE STUDY BE A TRAINER 924 Applying Transitions and Animations 955
WORK WITH POWERPOINT 926 Inserting a Header or Footer 957
Opening and Viewing a PowerPoint Presentation 926 HANDS-ON EXERCISES 3
Typing a Speaker Note 933 Presentation Enhancement 960
Saving as a PowerPoint Show 934
NAVIGATION AND PRINTING 965
HANDS-ON EXERCISES 1 Navigating a Slide Show 965
Work with PowerPoint 936 Printing in PowerPoint 968
PRESENTATION CREATION 939 HANDS-ON EXERCISES 4
Planning and Preparing a Presentation 939 Navigation and Printing 972
Adding Presentation Content 943
CHAPTER OBJECTIVES REVIEW 975
Reviewing the Presentation 946
KEY TERMS MATCHING 977
HANDS-ON EXERCISES 2 MULTIPLE CHOICE 978
Presentation Creation 948 PRACTICE EXERCISES 979
PRESENTATION ENHANCEMENT 953 MID-LEVEL EXERCISES 984
Adding a Table 953 BEYOND THE CLASSROOM 987
Inserting Media Objects 954 CAPSTONE EXERCISE 988
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■ chapter four Enhancing with Multimedia: PowerPoint Rich
Media Tools 1116
Case Study Engagement Album 1116 Photo Albums 1165
Pictures 1118 Creating a Photo Album 1165
Inserting a Picture 1118 Setting Photo Album Options 1166
Transforming a Picture 1121 Hands-On Exercises 4
Using the Internet as a Resource 1133 Photo Albums 1168
Hands-On Exercises 1 Chapter Objectives Review 1173
Pictures 1136 Key Terms Matching 1174
Video 1145 Multiple Choice 1175
Adding Video 1145 Practice Exercises 1176
Using Video Tools 1149 Mid-Level Exercises 1180
Hands-On Exercises 2 Beyond the Classroom 1182
Video 1155 Capstone Exercise 1183
Audio 1158
Adding Audio 1158
Changing Audio Settings 1160
Hands-On Exercises 3
Audio 1163
Index 1241
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Acknowledgments
The Exploring team would like to acknowledge and thank all the reviewers who helped us throughout the years by providing us with their
invaluable comments, suggestions, and constructive criticism.
Acknowledgments xv
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Preface
The Exploring Series and You
Exploring is Pearson’s Office Application series that requires students like you to think “beyond the point
and click.” In this edition, we have worked to restructure the Exploring experience around the way you,
today’s modern student, actually use your resources.
The goal of Exploring is, as it has always been, to go farther than teaching just the steps to accomplish
a task—the series provides the theoretical foundation for you to understand when and why to apply a
skill. As a result, you achieve a deeper understanding of each application and can apply this critical
thinking beyond Office and the classroom.
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Key Features
The How/Why Approach helps students move beyond the point and click to a true understanding of
how to apply Microsoft Office skills.
• White Pages/Yellow Pages clearly distinguish the theory (white pages) from the skills covered in
the Hands-On Exercises (yellow pages) so students always know what they are supposed to be doing
and why.
• Case Study presents a scenario for the chapter, creating a story that ties the Hands-On Exercises
together.
• Hands-On Exercise Videos are tied to each Hands-On Exercise and walk students through the
steps of the exercise while weaving in conceptual information related to the Case Study and the
objectives as a whole.
The Outcomes focus allows students and instructors to know the higher-level learning goals and how
those are achieved through discreet objectives and skills.
• Outcomes presented at the beginning of each chapter identify the learning goals for students and
instructors.
• Enhanced Objective Mapping enables students to follow a directed path through each chapter,
from the objectives list at the chapter opener through the exercises at the end of the chapter.
• Objectives List: This provides a simple list of key objectives covered in the chapter. This includes
page numbers so students can skip between objectives where they feel they need the most help.
• Step Icons: These icons appear in the white pages and reference the step numbers in the Hands-
On Exercises, providing a correlation between the two so students can easily find conceptual help
when they are working hands-on and need a refresher.
• Quick Concepts Check: A series of questions that appear briefly at the end of each white
page section. These questions cover the most essential concepts in the white pages required for
students to be successful in working the Hands-On Exercises. Page numbers are included for easy
reference to help students locate the answers.
• Chapter Objectives Review: Appears toward the end of the chapter and reviews all important
concepts throughout the chapter. Newly designed in an easy-to-read bulleted format.
• MOS Certification Guide for instructors and students to direct anyone interested in prepping for
Watch the Video the MOS exam to the specific locations to find all content required for the test.
for this Hands-
On Exercise!
End-of-Chapter Exercises offer instructors several options for assessment. Each chapter has
approximately 11–12 exercises ranging from multiple choice questions to open-ended projects.
• Multiple Choice, Key Terms Matching, Practice Exercises, Mid-Level Exercises, Beyond
ANALYSIS the Classroom Exercises, and Capstone Exercises appear at the end of all chapters.
CASE • Enhanced Mid-Level Exercises include a Creative Case (for PowerPoint and Word), which
allows students some flexibility and creativity, not being bound by a definitive solution, and an
CREATIVE Analysis Case (for Excel and Access), which requires students to interpret the data they are
CASE using to answer an analytic question, as well as Discover Steps, which encourage students to
use Help or to problem-solve to accomplish a task.
• Application Capstone exercises are included in the book to allow instructors to test students on
HOE1 Training Grader
the entire contents of a single application.
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Resources
Instructor Resources
The Instructor’s Resource Center, available at www.pearsonhighered.com, includes the
following:
• Instructor Manual provides one-stop-shop for instructors, including an overview of all available
resources, teaching tips, as well as student data and solution files for every exercise.
• Solution Files with Scorecards assist with grading the Hands-On Exercises and end-of-chapter
exercises.
• Prepared Exams allow instructors to assess all skills covered in a chapter with a single project.
• Rubrics for Mid-Level Creative Cases and Beyond the Classroom Cases in Microsoft Word format
enable instructors to customize the assignments for their classes.
• PowerPoint Presentations with notes for each chapter are included for out-of-class study or
review.
• Multiple Choice, Key Term Matching, and Quick Concepts Check Answer Keys
• Scripted Lectures offer an in-class lecture guide for instructors to mirror the Hands-On Exercises.
• Syllabus Templates
• Outcomes, Objectives, and Skills List
• Assignment Sheet
• File Guide
Student Resources
Student Data Files
Access your student data files needed to complete the exercises in this textbook at
www.pearsonhighered.com/exploring.
Available in MyITLab
• Hands-On Exercise Videos allow students to review and study the concepts taught in the Hands-
On Exercises.
• Audio PowerPoints provide a lecture review of the chapter content, and include narration.
• Multiple Choice quizzes enable you to test concepts you have learned by answering auto-graded
questions.
• Book-specific 1:1 Simulations allow students to practice in the simulated Microsoft Office 2016
environment using hi-fidelity, HTML5 simulations that directly match the content in the Hands-On
Exercises.
• eText available in some MyITLab courses and includes links to videos, student data files, and other
learning aids.
• Book-specific 1:1 Grader Projects allow students to complete end of chapter Capstone Exercises
live in Microsoft Office 2016 and receive immediate feedback on their performance through various
reports.
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Microsoft
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OBJECTIVES & SKILLS: After you read this chapter, you will be able to:
CHAPTER
Getting Started with Microsoft®
Windows® 10
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Working with an Operating System • Windows 10 3
Windows 10 Fundamentals
There are two types of software on your computer: application software and system soft-
ware. Application software are programs you use for email, gaming, social networking,
and digital photo management. Application software also includes productivity software
such as word processing, spreadsheet, and presentation applications. As essential as
these application programs may be to you for entertainment or for accomplishing a spe-
cific task, system software is the essential software that the computer needs. Without sys-
tem software, your computer could not function. System software includes the operating
system and utility programs, and helps to run application software, manage your files,
and manage system resources and other computer activities.
In this section, you will learn how to work with the features of the Windows 10 oper-
ating system. In particular, you will learn how to set up a Microsoft account if you do not
have one established already, and start and shut down Windows. You will also learn how
to configure the Start menu and taskbar to manage programs and apps.
Eventually, you will want to shut down Windows and turn off your computer. To
do so, from the Start menu, click Power. Selecting Restart will turn off and immediately
restart Windows. This is a “warm boot.” To power down completely, click Power and then
select Shut down.
Open the Start menu by clicking the Start icon in the bottom left corner of the
desktop or by pressing the Windows key on the keyboard. The Start menu, as shown in
Figure 1.3, has two areas. The right side has the same look as the metro (or modern) view
first introduced in Windows 8 with block icons, called tiles. Tiles represent installed pro-
grams and Windows apps (such as Weather, Skype, and Money). Tiles can also represent
files, folders, or other items related to your computer. If there are more tiles on the Start
menu than displayed, use the scroll bar on the right. You can launch Windows 10 apps
and programs by clicking or tapping a tile on the Start menu.
A tile for the app displays on the Start menu. The new tile is added to the very end of your
app tiles, so you may have to scroll down to find the tile you added. Once on the Start menu,
the size of a tile can be modified.
You may also have some tiles that you do not want on the Start menu. These might
be programs or applications that appear on the Start menu by default, or tiles you added
but now want to remove. Removing (or unpinning) an application is just as easy as
adding one.
To unpin an application from the Start menu, complete the following steps:
1. Right-click the tile you want to remove from the Start menu.
2. Click Unpin from Start.
Tiles on the Start menu are organized in groups separated by a small amount of divid-
ing space, as shown in Figure 1.3. You can easily move tiles from one group to another by
clicking a tile and dragging it into another group. You can reorder groups by clicking the
group name and dragging the group to its new location. You can also give any group of
tiles a meaningful name.
Open windows
Search box
Similar to pinning an app or program to the Start menu, you can place, or pin, icons
of frequently used programs or websites on the taskbar for faster access. When you pin
a program or website to the taskbar, its associated icon becomes a permanent part of the
taskbar. You can then open the program or website by clicking its icon.
To pin to the taskbar a program that is not already open, complete the
following steps:
1. Locate the program in All apps.
2. Right-click the program name.
3. Click Pin to taskbar.
To pin to the taskbar a program that is already open, complete the following steps:
1. Right-click the program icon on the taskbar.
2. Click Pin this program to taskbar.
You will find the Notification area (refer to Figure 1.4) on the right side of the taskbar.
This area contains system icons, including Clock, Volume, OneDrive, and Action Center.
The Notification area and what icons display in the Notification area are discussed later
in this chapter.
Folder
Program shortcut
Some icons that have a small arrow in the bottom-left corner are shortcuts that pro-
vide a link to programs. All other icons on the desktop are added when you save a file to
the desktop. If you save files to the desktop, you should organize them in desktop folders
so you can easily find related files.
You can also add a folder directly to the desktop by right-clicking an empty area of
the desktop, pointing to New, and then selecting Folder. Or, if there is an existing folder
you want to add to the desktop, open File Explorer, right-click the folder, choose Send to,
and then select Desktop (create shortcut) from the menu.
Using the taskbar, you can move among open windows with ease, but Windows pro-
vides additional methods to switch easily between open programs and files. Windows
makes it easy to move, resize, and close windows, as well as to arrange windows auto-
matically, even snapping them quickly to the desktop borders.
New desktop
Task View icon
TIP: ALT+TAB
You can use the keyboard to cycle through all open windows. Press and hold Alt on the keyboard and
repeatedly press Tab. Release Alt when the window that you want to display is selected.
I see increasing reason to believe that the view formed some time
back as to the origin of the Makonde bush is the correct one. I have
no doubt that it is not a natural product, but the result of human
occupation. Those parts of the high country where man—as a very
slight amount of practice enables the eye to perceive at once—has not
yet penetrated with axe and hoe, are still occupied by a splendid
timber forest quite able to sustain a comparison with our mixed
forests in Germany. But wherever man has once built his hut or tilled
his field, this horrible bush springs up. Every phase of this process
may be seen in the course of a couple of hours’ walk along the main
road. From the bush to right or left, one hears the sound of the axe—
not from one spot only, but from several directions at once. A few
steps further on, we can see what is taking place. The brush has been
cut down and piled up in heaps to the height of a yard or more,
between which the trunks of the large trees stand up like the last
pillars of a magnificent ruined building. These, too, present a
melancholy spectacle: the destructive Makonde have ringed them—
cut a broad strip of bark all round to ensure their dying off—and also
piled up pyramids of brush round them. Father and son, mother and
son-in-law, are chopping away perseveringly in the background—too
busy, almost, to look round at the white stranger, who usually excites
so much interest. If you pass by the same place a week later, the piles
of brushwood have disappeared and a thick layer of ashes has taken
the place of the green forest. The large trees stretch their
smouldering trunks and branches in dumb accusation to heaven—if
they have not already fallen and been more or less reduced to ashes,
perhaps only showing as a white stripe on the dark ground.
This work of destruction is carried out by the Makonde alike on the
virgin forest and on the bush which has sprung up on sites already
cultivated and deserted. In the second case they are saved the trouble
of burning the large trees, these being entirely absent in the
secondary bush.
After burning this piece of forest ground and loosening it with the
hoe, the native sows his corn and plants his vegetables. All over the
country, he goes in for bed-culture, which requires, and, in fact,
receives, the most careful attention. Weeds are nowhere tolerated in
the south of German East Africa. The crops may fail on the plains,
where droughts are frequent, but never on the plateau with its
abundant rains and heavy dews. Its fortunate inhabitants even have
the satisfaction of seeing the proud Wayao and Wamakua working
for them as labourers, driven by hunger to serve where they were
accustomed to rule.
But the light, sandy soil is soon exhausted, and would yield no
harvest the second year if cultivated twice running. This fact has
been familiar to the native for ages; consequently he provides in
time, and, while his crop is growing, prepares the next plot with axe
and firebrand. Next year he plants this with his various crops and
lets the first piece lie fallow. For a short time it remains waste and
desolate; then nature steps in to repair the destruction wrought by
man; a thousand new growths spring out of the exhausted soil, and
even the old stumps put forth fresh shoots. Next year the new growth
is up to one’s knees, and in a few years more it is that terrible,
impenetrable bush, which maintains its position till the black
occupier of the land has made the round of all the available sites and
come back to his starting point.
The Makonde are, body and soul, so to speak, one with this bush.
According to my Yao informants, indeed, their name means nothing
else but “bush people.” Their own tradition says that they have been
settled up here for a very long time, but to my surprise they laid great
stress on an original immigration. Their old homes were in the
south-east, near Mikindani and the mouth of the Rovuma, whence
their peaceful forefathers were driven by the continual raids of the
Sakalavas from Madagascar and the warlike Shirazis[47] of the coast,
to take refuge on the almost inaccessible plateau. I have studied
African ethnology for twenty years, but the fact that changes of
population in this apparently quiet and peaceable corner of the earth
could have been occasioned by outside enterprises taking place on
the high seas, was completely new to me. It is, no doubt, however,
correct.
The charming tribal legend of the Makonde—besides informing us
of other interesting matters—explains why they have to live in the
thickest of the bush and a long way from the edge of the plateau,
instead of making their permanent homes beside the purling brooks
and springs of the low country.
“The place where the tribe originated is Mahuta, on the southern
side of the plateau towards the Rovuma, where of old time there was
nothing but thick bush. Out of this bush came a man who never
washed himself or shaved his head, and who ate and drank but little.
He went out and made a human figure from the wood of a tree
growing in the open country, which he took home to his abode in the
bush and there set it upright. In the night this image came to life and
was a woman. The man and woman went down together to the
Rovuma to wash themselves. Here the woman gave birth to a still-
born child. They left that place and passed over the high land into the
valley of the Mbemkuru, where the woman had another child, which
was also born dead. Then they returned to the high bush country of
Mahuta, where the third child was born, which lived and grew up. In
course of time, the couple had many more children, and called
themselves Wamatanda. These were the ancestral stock of the
Makonde, also called Wamakonde,[48] i.e., aborigines. Their
forefather, the man from the bush, gave his children the command to
bury their dead upright, in memory of the mother of their race who
was cut out of wood and awoke to life when standing upright. He also
warned them against settling in the valleys and near large streams,
for sickness and death dwelt there. They were to make it a rule to
have their huts at least an hour’s walk from the nearest watering-
place; then their children would thrive and escape illness.”
The explanation of the name Makonde given by my informants is
somewhat different from that contained in the above legend, which I
extract from a little book (small, but packed with information), by
Pater Adams, entitled Lindi und sein Hinterland. Otherwise, my
results agree exactly with the statements of the legend. Washing?
Hapana—there is no such thing. Why should they do so? As it is, the
supply of water scarcely suffices for cooking and drinking; other
people do not wash, so why should the Makonde distinguish himself
by such needless eccentricity? As for shaving the head, the short,
woolly crop scarcely needs it,[49] so the second ancestral precept is
likewise easy enough to follow. Beyond this, however, there is
nothing ridiculous in the ancestor’s advice. I have obtained from
various local artists a fairly large number of figures carved in wood,
ranging from fifteen to twenty-three inches in height, and
representing women belonging to the great group of the Mavia,
Makonde, and Matambwe tribes. The carving is remarkably well
done and renders the female type with great accuracy, especially the
keloid ornamentation, to be described later on. As to the object and
meaning of their works the sculptors either could or (more probably)
would tell me nothing, and I was forced to content myself with the
scanty information vouchsafed by one man, who said that the figures
were merely intended to represent the nembo—the artificial
deformations of pelele, ear-discs, and keloids. The legend recorded
by Pater Adams places these figures in a new light. They must surely
be more than mere dolls; and we may even venture to assume that
they are—though the majority of present-day Makonde are probably
unaware of the fact—representations of the tribal ancestress.
The references in the legend to the descent from Mahuta to the
Rovuma, and to a journey across the highlands into the Mbekuru
valley, undoubtedly indicate the previous history of the tribe, the
travels of the ancestral pair typifying the migrations of their
descendants. The descent to the neighbouring Rovuma valley, with
its extraordinary fertility and great abundance of game, is intelligible
at a glance—but the crossing of the Lukuledi depression, the ascent
to the Rondo Plateau and the descent to the Mbemkuru, also lie
within the bounds of probability, for all these districts have exactly
the same character as the extreme south. Now, however, comes a
point of especial interest for our bacteriological age. The primitive
Makonde did not enjoy their lives in the marshy river-valleys.
Disease raged among them, and many died. It was only after they
had returned to their original home near Mahuta, that the health
conditions of these people improved. We are very apt to think of the
African as a stupid person whose ignorance of nature is only equalled
by his fear of it, and who looks on all mishaps as caused by evil
spirits and malignant natural powers. It is much more correct to
assume in this case that the people very early learnt to distinguish
districts infested with malaria from those where it is absent.
This knowledge is crystallized in the
ancestral warning against settling in the
valleys and near the great waters, the
dwelling-places of disease and death. At the
same time, for security against the hostile
Mavia south of the Rovuma, it was enacted
that every settlement must be not less than a
certain distance from the southern edge of the
plateau. Such in fact is their mode of life at the
present day. It is not such a bad one, and
certainly they are both safer and more
comfortable than the Makua, the recent
intruders from the south, who have made USUAL METHOD OF
good their footing on the western edge of the CLOSING HUT-DOOR
plateau, extending over a fairly wide belt of
country. Neither Makua nor Makonde show in their dwellings
anything of the size and comeliness of the Yao houses in the plain,
especially at Masasi, Chingulungulu and Zuza’s. Jumbe Chauro, a
Makonde hamlet not far from Newala, on the road to Mahuta, is the
most important settlement of the tribe I have yet seen, and has fairly
spacious huts. But how slovenly is their construction compared with
the palatial residences of the elephant-hunters living in the plain.
The roofs are still more untidy than in the general run of huts during
the dry season, the walls show here and there the scanty beginnings
or the lamentable remains of the mud plastering, and the interior is a
veritable dog-kennel; dirt, dust and disorder everywhere. A few huts
only show any attempt at division into rooms, and this consists
merely of very roughly-made bamboo partitions. In one point alone
have I noticed any indication of progress—in the method of fastening
the door. Houses all over the south are secured in a simple but
ingenious manner. The door consists of a set of stout pieces of wood
or bamboo, tied with bark-string to two cross-pieces, and moving in
two grooves round one of the door-posts, so as to open inwards. If
the owner wishes to leave home, he takes two logs as thick as a man’s
upper arm and about a yard long. One of these is placed obliquely
against the middle of the door from the inside, so as to form an angle
of from 60° to 75° with the ground. He then places the second piece
horizontally across the first, pressing it downward with all his might.
It is kept in place by two strong posts planted in the ground a few
inches inside the door. This fastening is absolutely safe, but of course
cannot be applied to both doors at once, otherwise how could the
owner leave or enter his house? I have not yet succeeded in finding
out how the back door is fastened.