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this is sufficiently dry, a neat covering of matting is worked 
over the whole. Such huts are completely water-tight, and 
very warm. 
The KafFers having always been represented as agriculturists, 
we were a little disappointed in not meeting with gardens and 
cultivated grounds about their habitations, not a vestige of 
which had any where appeared. On putting the question to 
Gaika, he replied, that having been engaged in war for the two 
or three years last past, during which he had not been able to 
fix at any one place above a month or two at a time, they had 
consequently been under the necessity of suspending their pur- 
suits of agriculture ; that in time of peace they always planted 
millet, and several kinds of vegetables ; and that nothing could 
give him an equal degree of pleasure to that of seeing the 
keei-ie, now an instrument of war, converted into an utensil of 
husbandry ; but that at present he was just on the eve of an- 
other campaign. He seemed much pleased when the landrost 
told him, that if, on his return from his expedition, he would 
send to GraafF Reynet, he should be supplied with corn and 
ditferent garden-seeds ; and he appeared to anticipate the 
happiness that his people would experience, after the fatigues 
and horrors of war, in returning to their ancient habits of 
peaceful industry. 
The country inhabited by the pcoj)le whom the colonists 
distinguish by the name of KafFers, is bounded on the south 
by the sea-coast ; on the east, by a tribe of the same kind of 
people who call tliemselves Tamhoolcies ; on the north, by the 
savage Bosjesmans ; and on the west, by the colony of the 
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