Missionary Travels And Researches in South Africa: Including a Sketch of ...
Missionary Travels And Researches in South Africa: Including a Sketch of ...
Livingstone David
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Their disputes are usually conducted with great volubility and noisy swearing, but they generally terminate by both parties bursting into a laugh. At every village attempts were made to induce us to remain a night. Sometimes large pots of beer were offered to us as a temptation. Occasionally the head man would peremptorily order us to halt under a tree which he pointed out. At other times young men volunteered to guide us to the impassable part of the 504 FUNERAL OBSERVAKCEa next bog, in the ho...pe of bringing us to a stand, for all are excess- ively eager to trade ; but food was so verj cheap that we some- times preferred paying them to keep it, and let us part in good humor. A good-sized fowl could be had for a single charge of gunpowder. Each native who owns a gun carries about with him a measure capable of holding but one charge, in which he receives his powder. Throughout this region the women are almost en- tirely naked, their gowns being a patch of cloth frightfully narrow, with no flounces ; and nothing could exceed the eagerness with which they offered to purchase strips of calico of an inferior de- scription.
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