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tongue with sand ! He had been very drunk 

 the night before, and I suppose it was furry in 

 consequence. He had stretched it out to its full 

 extent, and was scooping up sand with his fore- 

 finger and rubbing it well in as far as he could 

 reach, enough to make a white man dreadfully 

 sick ; but then they are so used to clean every- 

 thing with sand there is so much of it every- 

 where, and it is so handy. They even cruelly try 

 to throw handfuls of sand in a dog's eyes if it 

 barks at them, and regularly clean their teeth 

 with it after every meal. All pots and pans are 

 of course cleaned with it, and I found my Chobi 

 boy Jack cleaning knives and forks, both silver 

 and steel, by working them up and down in the 

 sandy ground, and when told it was not the 

 right fashion, he mended matters by using the 

 bathbrick alike for all ! 



This boy, though generally so intelligent, once 

 amused me by an astonishing piece of stupidity. 

 He had been smoking out a swarm of bees, 

 which had clustered in a compact mass a foot 

 deep in a most undesirable spot, and during the 



