DRUNKEN HABITS. 75 



not say much for the teaching they have re- 

 ceived or the company they have been in 

 whilst away. 



When the noble Kafir goes for a walk he 

 always carries a knobkerry or a stick ; the latter 

 generally carried resting on the shoulders behind 

 the neck and held by both hands. I have tried 

 this fashion with my butterfly-net when walk- 

 ing long distances, and find it a very comfort- 

 able and easy position. When he is drunk, a 

 not very rare occurrence, he dances and shouts 

 and sings most unmelodiously as he goes along, 

 carrying the stick or knobkerry standing upright 

 at arm's-length. 



Both men and women are terrible drunkards ; 

 they will do anything for rum, and they get 

 drunk so early in the morning, too it is quite 

 disgraceful. I often see them come reeling 

 and shouting up the hill, after having disposed 

 of their market produce, before ten o'clock. 

 Mothers will actually give rum to their sucking 

 children. Many begin to drink on Saturday 

 afternoon, and keep it up all Sunday, which 



