GARDENING TROUBLES. 15 



march in, their attendant Kafir meanwhile being 

 fast asleep in the shade of a tree; pigs, too, 

 often escape from their sties and push through 

 the fence of course going every way but the 

 right when an attempt is made to hunt them 

 out ; and last, but not least, the enormous num- 

 bers of fat slugs that generally appear every 

 season (in such myriads that branches actually 

 bend with their weight) complete the list of 

 unwelcome visitors to a garden. 



The washing of clothes is carried on at the 

 springs ; one favourite washing-place being under 

 the high red cliff to the left of the town, and it 

 is amusing to stand on the top of the cliff and 

 watch the various occupations going on by the 

 little streamlet below ; the pots being filled 

 where the water first trickles out lower down 

 the clothes being washed ; and lastly, the women 

 bathing and washing the little ones, throwing 

 the water over each other out of gourds and 

 tins their shining brown bodies surrounded by 

 bright green bauana- trees and patches of high 

 flowering cane with feathery tops forming a 



