152 DELAGOA BAY. 



A very tiny shrimp is netted and esteemed a 

 great delicacy by the natives to mix with their 

 mealie porridge after being dried in the sun. 

 They also dry fish, with or without salt, by 

 spreading it out on the roofs of their huts, 

 where it may also acquire a smoky flavour from 

 the constant fires inside. 



A small fish like whitebait is sometimes 

 brought for sale, and is very good eaten with 

 lemon-juice and hot pepper. 



Large turtles are also found in the Bay, and 

 are of good quality. 



If the produce of the land were as plentiful 

 as that of the sea, the merchants would not 

 complain so bitterly of the state of trade as they 

 do at present ; but, in my opinion, the scarcity 

 of produce is owing as much to the paucity of 

 labour as to the idleness of the natives, there 

 actually not being sufficient population to cul- 

 tivate the soil. 



The emigration of Kafirs to the Cape Colony 

 and Natal may be one cause of this, but only a 

 very slight one. 



