surrounded us during its consumption. They have
a plentiful growth of tobacco plants near Gutu s
kraal, and large fields of rice, in which the women
were just then busily engaged in making the broad
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furrows ; they have very prettily carved doors to their
huts, and many of the men wear sandals on their feet.
Altogether Gona struck us as one of the most prosperous
kraals we had seen in the country.
As we journeyed eastwards the appearance of the
