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most idle and lazy, very fat, and fearfully 

 stupid. 



During his stay a terrible storm visited us 

 one night, and after a while I heard my tiles 

 travelling and the water pouring in, and had 

 to get up to see to the safety of my collections. 

 Presently there was a crash outside, and I knew 

 something had happened to the kitchen ; then 

 I heard Jonaas lumbering on to the verandah, 

 groaning and shivering, and spreading his mat 

 outside my door. 



In the morning I found half the kitchen 

 blown down and part of the stable roof gone, 

 and the boy very cold and wet, saying he was 

 " plenty sick " and could do no work ; but 

 knowing how very much work would have to 

 be done during that day, I laughed at him, as 

 it is never advisable to encourage a Kafir in 

 the idea that he is sick, and administered some 

 wine with plenty of ginger in it. In a little 

 while he said he was better, and after indulging 

 in a long pull at the stimulating pipe of m'bangi 

 (wild hemp), and sneezing, coughing, and ex- 



