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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- 

 kwebani after the departure of his companions, 

 Frank Oates completed the journey to Tati on the 

 23d, whence he did not start for Bamangwato till the 

 4th of April. 



MAKALAKA WOODEN VESSEL. 



