2 S 2 DEL A GO A BAY. 



The gourd instrument is the favourite, and 

 boys sent on errands constantly go along cheer- 

 fully tapping its wire, and often singing some 

 doggerel verse composed about their masters or 

 their work. 



The third instrument is a piece of thick cane 

 three-quarters of an inch in diameter aud three 

 feet long, having a fine string made of the 

 twisted hairs from an ox-tail stretched along 

 its entire length, but not touching the cane. 

 At one end of the string a flat piece of quill 

 an inch long is tied, and the lips being placed 

 on this and the breath sucked in and out seem- 

 ingly by a great effort, a loud and appalling 

 noise is produced, best represented as follows 





and more resembling the hee-haw of a donkey 

 than anything else. Of course all these instru- 

 ments vary in size, and sometimes the cane is 

 ornamented. I have only described those in 

 my own possession. These Kafirs also make a 



