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trcafury, I mean his fields, his cattle, &c. 
ruhi his property, and reduce it to nothing. 
His hut is neither higher nor better orna- 
mented than any of the reft ; and he col- 
lects his feraglio and his family around him, . 
which compofe a group of twelve or fifteen 
huts at moft. The fields which furround 
them are generally thofe that he cultivates, 
and it is cuftomary for each perfon to ga- 
ther in his own crops, in order to difpofe of 
them in whatever manner he thinks proper. 
The grain which they reap is the favourite 
nourifhment of the CafFres : they pound and 
bruife it between two ftones ; and on this 
account, each family feparating from the reft 
that they may have their produdions within 
their reach, a fingle horde, not very nume- 
rous, often occupies a league fquare of 
ground, which is never the cafe among the 
Gonaquas or the Hottentots. 
This diftance of the diflferent hordes from 
one another, renders it neceffary that they 
fhould have chiefs, who are appointed by the 
king. When be has any thing to commu- 
nicate to them of great importance for the 
nation, he fends for them, and tells them 
his orders, or, I ought rather to fay^ his news, 
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