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the surface of the bowl, they then cut out se- 
veral devices, either yandyke edging, animals, 
birds, or flowers ; and, setting the pipe in sand, 
they run hot lead into the indentations, cut- 
ting and paring this with their knives, until the 
whole surface of the bowl is quite even ; and 
by means of friction, against their hands and 
blanket, they succeed in giving it a brilliant 
polish. As articles of barbarous handicraft, 
these pipes (or as they are called, in Kaffir, 
" Inqunawa,") are very creditable to them. 
Having made them, they equally well under- 
stand the use of them : for they spend half the 
day lying, in indolent enjoyment, in front of 
their huts, smoking their tobacco, and watch- 
ing their sleek and fat cattle grazing on the 
surrounding plains. 
The narcotic weed is, as a necessary conse- 
quence, largely cultivated by them ; but they 
now prefer it as manufactured in Europe. Caven- 
dish tobacco is their favourite description, and 
this they solicit from every white man with 
whom they meet. So universal, indeed, has 
this custom of begging tobacco become, of late, 
amongst them, that the common salutation of 
every Kaffir now, through the Amakosa tribes, 
is, u Watoo Baas ! Azali toobac " " Good day, 
master, give me a present of some tobacco !" 
and, amongst the Zulus, " Bona sacha inkose, 
