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of a stick, and the baskets of tomatoes on 

 the other. 



Palm-wine is delicious when freshly caught in 

 clean bottles, but when it has begun to ferment 

 it loses all its sweet flavour. The Kafirs are 

 very fond of it in every stage, and buy it eagerly. 



Milk is very rarely offered for sale on the hill, 

 but occasionally a very dirty boy will appear 

 with an equally dirty-looking bottle of milk 

 generally goat's milk, and tasting of goat, so I 

 never buy it, much preferring to use the con- 

 densed milk. 



I am afraid I have made many and long 

 digressions since I began the subject of my daily 

 doings, but one subject so suggests another that 

 I almost forget the original. Now, however, I 

 will try to proceed in a less erratic fashion, but 

 I fear it will not be long before I transgress 



again. 



After the marketing is over and the indis- 

 pensable early cup of tea or coffee enjoyed, I 

 generally have something to do in the shape of 

 pinning up insects caught the previous uight, 



