Mr. Patterson's Travels in Africa. 



we could distinguish the length and thickness of their 

 teeth. The country is here well watered, and produces 

 excellent pasture for Cattle. In the evening we saw a 

 smoke upon the side of a green hill, which our guide 

 informed us was a CafFree Village, three of the natives 

 seemed rather alarmed at our arrival and retired to inform 

 the whole of the villagers; they then received us kindly, 

 brought us a present of milk, and offered us a fat Bullock, 

 agreeably to their usual hospitable custom. 



" The Village consists of fifty thatched houses and 

 stands near a very pleasant river called Mugu Ranie and 

 it belongs to their chief. It contains about four hundred 

 inhabitants who are in shite of vassalage to the chief, 

 they subsist entirely on the milk of Cows and Game, not 

 not being allowed to kill any Cattle. The men take 

 care of the Cattle and milk them, the women cultivate all 

 the gardens and manage the gathering of the corn. 



i( The Chief made us a present of a Bullock, which we 

 afterwards shot, and the Natives were very much surprised 

 having never seen a gun before, he wished me to have taken 

 a hundred Bullocks in return for some Beads and Tobacco 

 which I presented to him, he seemed half offended that I 

 would not take them, and said, " Well, what do you think 

 now of our Country I" Their baskets are beautifully woven 

 from grass by the Women, and are so close that they will 

 hold water completely. Of these I begged for two, also 

 two of their lances, which they freely gave me, and begged 

 of us to stop with them for a few days, but as the weather 

 was very hot, we chose rather to sleep in the woods, than 

 in their Huts, and only remained there one night. They 

 make a kind of punch, which is very pleasant, from the 

 Guinea Corn 5 they make use also of Plantain, called by 



