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MONARRL — TAKING A SKETCH OF THE TOWN. 
20 July, 
was there seated in the midst of tobacco ; but I no where found 
relief ; I was assailed on all sides bj, Lee muchuko : — ^Mpd muchuko, 
Mondrri : ■ — Muchuko okdi ? ' Give me tobacco :' — ' Give me some 
tobacco, Sir :' — * Where's the tobacco ? ' To whatever spot I went, 
thither I was followed : and their incessant begging was all which I 
had to attend to during the rest of the forenoon. 
By this time, I had acquired among the natives, the name of 
Mondr or Mondrri, which I suppose to be a corruption of the Dutch 
word Mynheer (Sir) used by the Hottentots ; but my interpreter 
explained it as being a title which they frequently give when address- 
ing their own chieftains. I was sometimes styled Kapteen (Captain), 
a word well known to all the native tribes who have any connection 
with the Cape Colony, and understood by them in the sense of ' a 
chief,' or ' a chieftain ; ' this being the rank in which they thought 
proper to place me. My own men had little occasion to make use 
of my real name, as there was no other European in the party, to 
render such a distinction necessary : in speaking of me, they used the 
Dutch words de Heer, and in the distant parts of the Colony that of 
de Engelsche Heer was the more common designation, although my 
name was affixed to both the waggons. 
In the afternoon, I walked to a little distance, to make a sketch 
of part of the town. I would not take any interpreter with me, that, 
by pretending not to understand what they said, I might escape 
the annoyance of beggars. Some of the inhabitants followed me, 
and others came and took their seat by my side while I was drawing. 
When they asked a question which I understood, I endeavoured, in the 
best manner in my power, to give them an answer ; but when I heard 
the word muchuko or lishueena, I affected not to comprehend their 
meaning ; and, seeming to listen with great attention as if desirous 
of making out what they said, I tired them out by repeatedly saying. 
Bud kdapi (Say it again) ; and at last declared, Na ka si uklwa (I 
don't understand you). Some of them, however, were shrewd enough 
to see through the trick ; and on its detection, we laughed at each 
other : — but I gave no muchuko. This little ruse was so much in their 
own style, that they were far from being displeased at it : it rather, 
