quacha; and all these they contrive to take by exertion o r
by stratagem. In their choice of animal food they are not
remarkably nice. They will eat the wolf, the' hytena, and
the niyrtnecaphaga or ant-eater; the leopard, the tyger-cat,
and the Camelopardalis; and the country abounds with ostriches,
bustards, grous, Guinea fowls, and partridges. But
all these, plentiful as they are, would furnish but a precarious
supply for so considerable a population ; and necessity has
therefore, in all probability, compelled them to call in aid
the never-failing source of plenty and provision which agriculture
affords. The grain chiefly cultivated,, as appeared by
the samples brought back by the commissioners, consisted of
the Iwlcus sorghum, a smaller species of the same genus
which from the reddish coloured seed appeared to be the
Saccharatus, a Dolichos not unlike the cadjan, and a small
spotted Phaseolus or kidney bean. These different kinds of
grain and pulse appear to be sown.promiscuously and,, when
reaped, to be thrown indiscriminately into their earthen
granaries; from whence they are taken and used without
selection, sometimes by broiling, but more generally boiling
in milk. I t will readily be supposed that the art of agriculture
among this people is yet in its lowest stage. In fact,
the only labour bestowed on the ground is performed by the,
women, and with a rude instrument something like the
hoe. I t is a flat piece of iron fixed into the knob of the
Kaffer heerie. When its horizontal edge is so fitted that it
stands at right angles with the handle, it serves as a hoe;
when turned round so as to he parallel with the handle, i t is
then a hatchet. One of these instruments, appears lying on
the ground, in the print of the two: annexed figures.