SHONGA
Shonga typified the very simplest of primitive existence—a place whose inhabitants needed no more than one look to see that they were exceedingly dependent on nature. They felt quite at home with nature, just like the Bushmen of the Kalahari Desert, depending largely on fishing and gathering wild fruits, nuts, and other products from forests which made up much of the landscape. Within these forests lay scattered human settlements that had nothing but thatched houses for homes. Houses were built from materials that came from the branches and leaves of trees, ones that could very easily be blown away and carried about like dust in one sweep should they ever exist in hurricane-prone areas. The men, women, and children wore no clothes. Not even the young men and women amongst them wore
