2,2 THROUGH GASA LAND. 



should chance to hunt in the countries where mis- 

 sionaries are located, he had better never take the 

 law into his own hands, or these interesting, self- 

 denying, self-sacrificing individuals will make it an 

 excuse for mulcting the transgessor by a heavy fine 

 in coin. To whom the specie ultimately finds its 

 way we may well guess. 



Now that our new acquaintances had become 

 amenable to reason, if they had not been so fearfully 

 dirty, their society could have been turned to many 

 advantages, but oh! they were filthy — dirty is 

 scarcely a strong enough term — and not improbably 

 either the true unalloyed progenitors or descendants 

 of the " great unwashed." The Zulus are not by any 

 means forgetful of attending to their ablutions, but 

 the otherwise sweetness of the smell of their bodies 

 is somewhat nullified by the quantities of fresh 

 animal fat with which, when obtainable, they are 

 constantly anointing their bodies. 



I have often spoken to the natives about their 

 performing this objectionable habit ; in answer they 

 would invariably respond by saying, " Black man not 

 smell as much as white man," and, in proof of this, 

 inquire who could go nearest game down wind, black 

 or white man. Of course they can ; but the reason 

 for this is that the wild animals do not dread the 

 aborigines as they do the strangers, and it is quite 

 natural that such should be the case, for the latter 

 wounds and perhaps kills from distances so remote 



