Chap. XXVL] SOUTHERN AFRICA. 229 



times, we find our brother traveller, Le Vaillant, 

 feasting upon the foot with extraordinary relish. 

 To the attention of the city aldermen, however, I 

 must be allowed to recommend the slice round the 

 eye, which appears to have been hitherto over- 

 looked by bon vivans. Upon this dainty morsel, 

 roasted upon a stick before a blazing fire, or singed 

 among the embers, so as to come under the Hot- 

 tentot denomination of carbonaadtje, or devilled- 

 grill, we frequently feasted ; and I can aver, without 

 the smallest fear of contradiction, that the dish 

 rather resembled the fragment of a shoe, picked up 

 after a conflagration, than meat which could boast 

 of having been subjected to a culinary process. 



Nothing momentous had transpired during our 

 absence, Cceur de Lion, our deputy, having proved 

 himself a bold and vigilant commander. The mer- 

 ciless inroads of the lions, and the trouble that their 

 attacks involved, had at length taught our followers 

 the necessity of keeping up constant watch-fires ; 

 and whenever the night was fine — which, " by the 

 king's orders," was sometimes the case — the guides 

 howled forth his praises, glutted themselves, and 

 took snuff by turns. The wild wood rang with 

 their shrill herdsman's whistle, and i-eiterated chorus 

 of " Hi-bo-bo ;" and when the night was spent, they 

 leisurely fetched a large stone, upon which downy pil- 

 low, having first refreshed the edges of their weapons, 

 they placed their woolly heads by the tire-side. 



In these regions, where the heavenly bodies are 

 seen through the clearest of mediums, a star-lit fir- 



