AFRICA. 257 
We fpent this night very peaceably, having 
our oxen faftened near us with large leather 
thongs, and our horfes with reins. We in- 
deed heard fome Hons roaring at a diftance 
in the mountains ; but we were under very 
little apprehenfions on that account. In ge- 
neral our uneafinefs and embarraffment in 
this refpedl had always decreafed in propor- 
tion to the train which followed us. 
Having departed early on the 5th of the 
month, we arrived at the kraal of the CafFres, 
which we imagined we had met with the 
evening before. The greater part of the 
huts were ftlU entire, and only a few of 
them had been burnt. I obferved fix or 
feven ftanding clofe together in a clufter; 
the reft, which might amount to about fifty 
or fixty, were fcattered here and there in 
the extent of half a league. Here I difco- 
vered, for the firft time, that thefe people ap- 
ply themfelves a little to agriculture : they 
fow a kind of millet, known under the name 
of Caftre wheat ; and, in order that they may 
be enabled to till the ground with greater faci- 
lity, each choofes that fpdt which feems to be 
moft favourable for his views, and eredls his 
hut in the centre of it : on this account their 
kraals 
