SCARCITY OF FOOD. 



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very well. We shall be glad to get away from here, 

 as it is difficult to get anything in the shape of food, 

 except what we have with us and what Gray gives 

 us. There has been a scarcity of corn this year, and 



LIMPOPO OR CROCODILE RIVER. 



the people are very hard pressed, living principally 

 on locusts, which are brought in every day in im- 

 mense sacks carried on people's heads. We buy 

 water of the women, which has to be brought some 

 distance. 



" This is a large town of Kaffir huts. The 

 people are of the Basuto branch. The king, Sekhomi, 

 visited me this morning, and seating himself on the 



