SCARCITY OF FOOD. 
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quickly on such occasions. Meat is rather scarce, 
but we generally manage to get enough, and, with 
bread and porridge, coffee and sugar, make out very 
well. We shall be glad to get away from here, as 
LIMPOPO OR CROCODILE RIVER. 
it is difficult to get anything in the shape of food 
except what we have with us, and what Gray gives 
us. There has been a scarcity of corn this year, and 
the people are very hard pressed, living principally 
on locusts, which are brought in every day in im- 
mense sacks carried on people's heads. We buy 
water of the women, which has to be brought some 
distance. 
" This is a larije town of Kafir huts. The 
people arc of the Basuto branch. The king, Sekomi, 
