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penetrate them.* "With respect to household furniture/' 

 says Thunberg,-f- " they have little or none. The same dress 

 that covers a part of their body by day, serves them also for 

 beddino- at nio-ht." Their victuals are boiled in leathern sacs 



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and water, by means of heated stones, but sometimes in 

 earthen pots.J Milk is kept in leathern sacs, bladders of 

 animals, and baskets made of platted rushes, perfectly water- 

 tight. These, a tobacco pouch of skin, a tobacco pipe of stone 

 or wood, and their weapons, constitute the whole catalogue of 

 their effects. According to Kolben, they sometimes broiled 

 their meat, sometimes boiled it in blood, to which they often 

 added milk ; " this they look on as a glorious dish." They 

 were, however, both filthy and careless about their cookery, 

 and the meat was often eaten half putrid, and more than half 

 raw. 



Their weapons consisted of bows and poisoned arrows, 

 spears, javelins or assagais, stones, and darting -sticks or 

 " kirris," about three feet long and an inch thick. With these 

 weapons they were very skilful, and feared not to attack the 

 elephant, the rhinoceros, or even the lion. Large animals were 

 also sometimes killed in pitfalls, from six to eight feet deep, 

 and about four feet in diameter. They fixed a strong pointed 

 stake in the middle. " Into this hole an elephant falling with 

 his fore-feet (it is not of dimensions to receive his whole body), 

 he is pierced in the neck and breast with the stake and there 

 held securely," || for the more he struggled the farther he 

 penetrated. They caught fish both with hooks and in nets. 

 They also ate wild fruits and roots of various kinds, which, 

 however, they did not take the trouble to cultivate. 



* Thunberg, Pinkerton's Travels, Thunberg, p. 141 ; Kolben, 



vol. xvi. p. 33 ; Kolben, I.e. p. 221; p. 203; Harris, Wild Sports of 



Sparrman, vol. i. p. 195. Africa, p. 142. 



f Page 141. || Kolben, p. 250. 



J This, however, they appear to 

 have learnt from the Europeans. 



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