AUG.] 
CONTINENT OF AFRICA. 
365 
Most of the stones of which the mountains here are 
composed are yellow, and sound like bell-metal on falling 
against each other : they are finely shaped for building, 
being generally flat. They intend immediately to begin 
erecting a meeting-house for the worship of God. On 
finishing this, Bern, their Captain and some others de- 
sign to build better houses for themselves, to which we 
have frequently urged them, as calculated to draw them 
more effectually from a wandering life, to which they 
still feel a propensity ; and as an ox can carry on its 
back any of the houses in which most of them now 
live, they are encouraged, by this facility of removing, 
often to take long and needless journies with their 
cattle. They likewise consented to build immediately 
a large passage-boat, for crossing the Great River with 
passengers, from which they are only about eighteen 
miles distant: we waited in vain five days to get 
across. We recommended their building a shed for 
the boat at a safe distance from the river, which no ris- 
ing of it could reach. They have several acres of land 
cultivated, in a beautiful vale a little to the south of the 
village. 
Number of persons at Hardcastle and district con- 
nected with it : 
Men 110 
Women I65 
Boys no 
Girls 100 
Corannas » 400 
885 
