The contact of these people for many generations with the Portuguese is shown in their speech. This is a feature noticeable in all native tribes in Mashonaland, which were at any time located in or near Portuguese territory. As stated below, Mogabe’s people originally came from the direction of the border. The terminations of some of their words are as distinctly Portuguese as one may hear at Lisbon or Oporto. Their connection with the Portuguese caused them to follow the rule common to that and some other Latin nations, viz. the interchange of _R_ and _L_. _Selukwe_ thus becomes _Serukwe_, _Belingwe Beringwe_, _Bulawayo Burawayo_, while in almost every word used by their people further west containing _L_ the latter is substituted for _R_. Locally they call themselves Mokaranga (_mo_ is a Chicaranga plural prefix), “the people of the sun.” The Portuguese writers, De Barros (1552), Dos Santos (1570), and Livio Sanuto (1588), give their name as _Mocaranga_. _Makalaka_, the name of derision bestowed upon them by the tribes in Bechuanaland, is known to them, but is never used by them, nor is _M’Holi_ (slaves), a title which some of the more degenerate Makalangas in Matabeleland have adopted as their personal and tribal name. The _totem_ or distinguishing sign of the local tribe of Makalanga is _moyo_, the heart. Each tribe has its own totem, which may be the leg of a certain buck or some particular bird. Should a bird or an animal be the totem the tribe bearing that sign do not eat of the flesh of such bird or animal, nor will they kill them. A man of one totem must not marry a wife of a tribe bearing the same totem, but must seek one of a tribe of Makalanga having another totem. Thus, as they affirm, “Heart must not marry Heart, nor Lion marry Lion.” This rule enforced through past ages has no doubt tended to maintain and improve their physical condition, and accounts for their fine figures, splendid health and general freedom from illnesses, and the almost utter absence of deformity and lunacy. A tribe of the Baduma people also bears the totem of the heart. The sub-tribal totem of the local Barotse[29] is the lion. The lion, which is also the totem of the local Amangwa, only includes rapacious animals, such as wild cats, wild dogs, etc. Certain families in the same tribe or kraal have distinguishing signs, or what may be termed sub-totems. The totem system also prevailed amongst the early Semitic peoples prior to biblical times, and was later a feature of Hebrew history; for instance, “The Lion of the tribe of Judah.” The totem of the Ephraimites was a bull.