Extracts from the Travels of Mr. Murigo Parke. 



cotton cloths. As most of the black people here are Maho- 

 medans, it is not allowed to the Caffirs to drink beer, 

 ■which they call neo-dollo (corn spirit) except in certain 

 houses. In one of these I saw about twenty people sitting 

 round large vessels of this beer with the <>reatest convivialit v, 

 many of them in a state of intoxication. As corn is plenti- 

 ful, the inhabitants are very hospitable and liberal to 

 strangers, and I believe we had as much corn and milk 

 sent us as would have been sufficient for three times our 

 number, and though we remained there two days, we 

 experienced no dimunition of kindness and regard. 



We reached the next village, called Datliboo, and 

 passed a caravan of travellers with corn paddles, mats, 

 and other household utensils, returning from the town of 

 Sego. We continued our journey, but having had a light 

 supper the preceding night, we felt ourselves rather hungry 

 and endeavoured to procure some corn at this village, but 

 without success. The towns were now more numerous, 

 and the land that is not employed in cultivation, affords 

 excellent pasturage for large herds of cattle, but owing to 

 the great concourse of people daily going to and returning 

 from Sego, the inhabitants are less hospitable to strangers. 

 My horse, in this part of my journey, being very much 

 fatigued, I was walking barefoot and driving my horse, 

 when 1 was met by a caravan of slaves, about seventy in 

 number, coming from Sego. They were tied together by 

 the necks with thongs of a bullock's hide twisted like a 

 rope, seven slaves upon a thong, and a man with a musket 

 between every seven. Many of the slaves were ill conditi- 

 oned and a great number of them women; they were to 

 proceed by the Ludamar and the great desart to Morocco. 

 At eight o'clock we departed from Doolinkaboo, and stopped 

 at a large village; hearing that two negroes were going 

 from thence to Sego, I was happy to have their company, 



