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as payment. Common knives are likewise refused, 
but gun caps taken eagerly. They like printed calico 
better than white, which they affect to despise. The 
outcry was for long strips of coloured stuff, and they 
preferred the quarter of two handkerchiefs {i.e. half 
a handkerchief in quantity), cut lengthwise, to one 
whole one. Stayed about waggon all day. Pitched 
tent, and got things out. 
^'September <^th. — The night had been very mild, 
Old Manyami came bothering early. In the course 
of the day he kept on coming, and I gave him twenty 
gun caps. Wonder of wonders, he afterwards pre- 
sented me with a pumpkin, and I felt less hostile to 
the old creature. He is really a miserable-looking, 
ugly, and filthy creature. Stayed about waggon again 
to-day. 
"September \otIi. — Early breakfast, and then out 
with the Kafirs to shoot. One carried my ten-bore, 
one led the dogs, which I am taking out to help to 
hunt. Went in a north-easterly direction, through 
very fine picturesque kopjes, with blue distant 
ranges ; the grass long and yellow, and the trees 
grouped prettily ; some kopjes with craggy tops, 
and partially covered with evergreens, others show- 
ing more of their stony formation. A good many 
trees are covered with bunches of cream-coloured 
blossoms something like * May,' but have no leaves. 
They remind me a little of * snow-balls.' Here and 
there we see a tree whose leaves are brown or scarlet 
with decay. In places where the grass has been 
burnt, fresh green blades are springing. There are 
