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thinly scattered, but chiefly confined to the kloofs of the 
two Umeazis, and the descent of the Zimvooboo. Faku’s 
power extends over Umyaku’s tribe, near the Umtata, and 
over the Amaweli tribe, on the other side of the Zimvooboo. 
His own people cannot be estimated at less than twenty 
thousand in number; for from one hill near the Great Place 
Mr. Shepstone counted a hundred kraals, each of which 
contained from twenty to forty houses, which, after the 
usual manner of counting population in this country, will 
give more than ten thousand inhabitants; and the view 
from the hill only took in the population ef one river, and 
the parts adjoining. Most of the land suitable for cultiva- 
tion is occupied with corn-fields and gardens, upon which 
the inhabitants chiefly depend for food: they have two 
crops of corn in a year, and as the rains are more regular 
than in Cafferland, the harvest seldom fails. Both sexes 
are very industrious, compared with other tribes; and here 
for the first time on this side of the Fish River, an intima- 
tion was conveyed to us that the value of time was under- 
stood. A woman said one morning, “ Pay me now for my 
milk, for it is time, I want to work in my garden.” This 
trifling circumstance speaks volumes as to the regular and 
systematical industry of the people. Brother Shepstone, to 
whom this was spoken, was quite enlivened at the sound of 
such words, and observed, that after living seven years in 
Cafferland, this was the first time he had heard such an 
expression from a native, whose only care about time is, 
generally speaking, “ how to kill it.””. The people around us 
are all well behaved and give us no trouble; they are will- 
ing to conform, in regard to dress, to our feelings of de- 
cency: a hint is sufficient, and this is no small comfort. 
Owing to the late unsettled state of the country, the present 
is a time of great distress. Many hundreds of people are 
living in the bushes on roots, without any fixed habitation, 
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