138 MATABELE LAND. 
bits of meat. They are without chiefs, and have no 
fixed place of abode, and no crops, building them- 
selves rough temporary huts when they want to stop 
anywhere for a time. They are capable of carrying 
immense loads, and sometimes help the Matabele 
with their corn, receiving a little of the grain in pay- 
ment when they return into the veldt. They have 
no guns, only assegais and dogs, and many of them 
have wounds of buffalo upon their persons. They 
snare buck, and occasionally get big game with their 
assegais. 
Still lingering a day or two longer on the Rama- 
queban after the departure of his companions, Frank 
Oates completed the journey to the Tati on the 23d, 
whence he did not start for Bamangwato till the 4th 
of April. 
WOODEN VESSEL. 
