Chap. X. 



NATIVE HOSPITALITY. 



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however, of service, if employed in conjunction with, a 

 wet sheet and a mild aperient in combination with quinine. 

 Purgatives, general bleedings, or indeed any violent remedies, 

 are injurious. The appearance of a herpetic eruption near 

 the mouth is regarded as an evidence that no internal organ 

 is in danger. There is a good deal in not " giving in " to this 

 disease. He who is low-spirited will die sooner than the man 

 who is not of a melancholic nature. 



On my visit in 1851 

 the Makololo made a 

 garden and planted 

 maize for me, that, as 

 they remarked when 

 I parted with them, I 

 might have food to eat 

 when I returned, as 

 well as other people. 

 The grain was now 

 pounded by the wo- 

 men into fine meal. 

 This they perforin in 

 large wooden mortars, 

 the exact counterpart 

 of those which are de- 

 picted on the Egyptian 

 monuments. To this 

 good supply of maize 

 Sekeletu added ten or 

 twelve jars of honey, 

 each of which con- 

 tained about two gal- 

 lons. A quantity of Vft^s 

 ground-nuts ( A rachis 

 hypogceci) were also 

 furnished every time 

 the tributary tribes 

 brought their dues to 

 Linyanti. An ox was 

 given us for slaughter r 



1 ° Egyptian Pestle and Mortar, Sieves, Corn \ essels, and 



every Week Or two, Kilt, identical with those in use by the Makololo 

 *-*A Q 1 1 j. and Makalaka— From Sir G. Wilkinson's ' Ancient 



and bekeletu appro- Egyptians.' 



