Tone is the protagonist of a Chagga aetiological legend of famine and landscape. Having provoked the high god Ruwa into bringing famine upon the land, Tone was driven out by his angry neighbours and found refuge only with a solitary dweller whose stones miraculously turned into cattle. Warned never to open the cattle stable, Tone disobeyed; the herd stampeded, throwing up hills — including Mawenzi and Kibo — as they fled, and Tone, exhausted by the pursuit, finally collapsed and perished upon Kibo. The tale, published in translation by Hutchinson from the German mission-era collections, ties the visible topography of the Kilimanjaro region to a moral narrative of divine anger and broken prohibition.