5 8 DEL AGO A BAY. 



and feeding my caterpillars with fresh leaves, 

 which is a long task when I have many varie- 

 ties ; then the pets have to be fed, and the lamps 

 to be trimmed (a duty which a lady certainly 

 never would trust to Kafir hands), and breakfast 

 to arrange (and often cook afterwards) ; lastly 

 the bath ; and although I am such an early 

 riser, it is often half-past nine or ten before I 

 can get out. 



Sometimes in the caterpillar season, just as I 

 have securely fastened up the cottage and am 

 starting heavily laden with boxes and bottles, 

 1 see a troop of women and children carrying 

 caterpillars coming over the hill ; then I have 

 to go in again and find suitable boxes for them, 

 and give the women and children each a hand- 

 ful of salt, with which they are quite contented. 

 Often no food-plant is brought with the cater- 

 pillars, it being extremely difficult to make the 

 Kafirs understand that such things require food as 

 much as they do themselves, and I am hindered 

 still more by having to wait while the proper 

 leaf is fetched. If it cannot be found, I then 



