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Spent tlie morning in putting things a little straight in 
the wagons. We were glad to find Woodroffe had 
succeeded in getting everything back safely from the head 
of the pass where we left him, as Caffres were continually 
passing, and were willing to carry a load to the wagons 
for a few beads or a bit of wire. After this we summoned 
the bearers, and gave each man what was agreed upon, 
much to their delight, and, I fancied, a little to their 
surprise, as, from odd bits of conversation Dubois had 
heard during our trip below, the question of being paid 
was evidently a matter of doubt, and this, perhaps, partly 
accounted for their unwillingness to come to work when 
we first engaged them ; and it also shewed that some 
blackguard of a white man had cheated them before — a 
practice that is, I am sorry to say, not uncommon with the 
white traders, and, of course, tends to make the Caffres 
distrust all white men ; whereas, until they have been 
deceived, their faith in a white man's word is great. I 
gave the two or three men who had helped us down with 
the cart something extra for their trouble; and E. gave 
her little donkey boy a whole heap of beads besides his 
pay, which elicited great signs of approval from all the 
other men and boys. Some chose beads, some wire, some 
salempore, and some blankets. La Mule, who had really 
been the means of our getting any men at all, received a 
bag of powder and two or three bars of lead, and a 
blanket, and went off in great glee therewith. The other 
men each received goods that were worth about £1, not 
much after all for their walk and labour, but yet double 
what they ought to have been paid for such a trip. After 
the payment was over we bought a few odds and ends 
from them, such as their pillows, assegais, and other 
things we fancied ; and they also began to buy from us, 
taking beads, blankets, cloth, &c., and apparently quite 
indifferent to what money they paid for them. They then 
