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EXHIBITING DRAWINGS. — BOKLOOKWE. 
14 July, 
and his attendants came also to have a sight. He dimbed up into 
the waggon, and my sitting-place was soon filled with men huddled 
and crowded together, so that neither he nor I could without difficulty 
find room for our feet. Every part of the waggon which they leaned 
against, was reddened with the ochre and sibtlo from their koboes and 
bodies ; and my own clothes began to assume the color of theirs. 
After having thus unexpectedly afforded by this exhibition, the 
highest gratification to the whole party, and to all who were in the 
enclosure, the crowd by degrees retired to their places, and the Chief 
and his brothers were glad to get their legs released from the cramped 
posture in which the contracted space in the waggon and the uncere- 
monious crowding of his people, had confined them. However 
inconvenient this want of accommodation might be to my visitors, it 
exactly suited my own wishes, as it prevented my having more at one 
time than 1 could watch and attend to. 
An old chieftain named Boklookwe was one of those who fre- 
quently paid me visits. His manners were always friendly, and he 
appeared to take pleasure in my society ; though I did not flatter 
myself that his friendship or attentions were purely disinterested or 
merely personal, or that they were altogether unconnected with 
muchuko (tobacco). As the portrait of him, drawn several weeks 
after this date, presents a just specimen of an old Bachapin Jwsi, I 
have added it at the end of the chapter.* 
When my dinner was prepared, which was not till four in the 
afternoon, I sent Gert, whom I at this period generally employed as 
my personal servant, to inform Mattivi that the meal waited for him. 
He brought with him only his uncle Serrakutu, who appeared to share 
much of the supreme authority. I explained to him, that as I was at 
* This engraving, though executed on wood and much reduced from the original 
drawing, preserves very correctly the character of countenance peculiar to the individual 
for whose portrait it is given. His hair was clotted by an accumulation of slbiilo and 
grease : and, affixed to the top of his head, he wore as an ornament, some hair from a 
haamcCs tail. From his ear was suspended a large plate of copper, called a lehaaka ; more 
particularly described in the eighteenth chapter. His beard grew only on the upper lip, 
and but scantily on the point of the chin. His dress is the ordinary leathern kobo 
already described. 
