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CIGAR, THE HOTTENTOT 45 



This instrument is played inside a calabash, and, 

 when unaccompanied by vocal music, is not at all 

 unpleasant to listen to. All the domestic animals 

 among the Mashunas are ridiculously small ; their 

 cattle smaller than Alderneys, their goats about a 

 meal for two, and their fowls no bigger than 

 partridges. The Mashunas of whom I am speaking 

 are living under the protection of Lobengula, to 

 whom they pay an annual tribute. 



After buying corn and rice I left my waggon to 

 be brought on by the driver, and saddling up my 

 horse started alone for Gwenia, in order to reach 

 Viljoen's camp within ten days as agreed upon. I 

 slept the same evening at the Boer encampment at 

 Sebakwe, where old Petrus Jacobs, finding I intended 

 the next night to sleep in the bush entirely alone, 

 would not hear of it. Remarking to his wife, 

 " Allemagtig, de leevws will de arme dome Englesman 

 opfret " (By the Almighty, the lions will eat up the 

 poor stupid Englishman), he called up two of his 

 Kafirs, whom he ordered to go with me, and carry 

 axes with them in order to make a proper camp. 

 The next night we slept, after having built a good 

 fence round the horse, on the farther side of the 

 Se-whoi-whoi river. On the way I saw a splendid 

 herd of elands, one of which I shot, and a good deal 

 of smaller game. Though we heard many lions 

 roaring during the night, none troubled us, and the 

 following day I once more reached Viljoen's en- 

 campment. 



On passing the Griqua waggons at Jomani, I saw 

 for the first time a Hottentot named Cigar, with 

 whom I before long became much better acquainted. 

 He had just returned from the " fly " country to the 

 north, and brought with him a nice lot of ivory. 



