March ] GRIQUA TOWN TO LATTAKOO. 
being covered with dark watery clouds, through 
which the moon's light could hardly penetrate ; 
but distant lightning amused us. At ten p. m. we 
reached a pool of muddy water. 
At sunrise we found the clouds were dispersed, 
and every thing indicated a fine day. Therm, at 
noon 78. 
A Bushman family, coming for water, re- 
mained at the waggons. It consisted of the 
husband and his wife, a younger brother, two 
daughters, eleven and twelve years of age, and a 
child of about eighteen months, which the mother 
continued to suckle. The man had a bow, and a 
quiver full of poisoned arrows. They had part 
of the entrails of a zebra filled with water, from 
which they frequently drank, and then filled 
five ostrich shells with water to carry home. 
We gave the man a piece of tobacco, for which 
he nodded and uttered some words in a low 
tone, expressive of thanks ; but on giving him 
the skin of a sheep killed in the morning, he 
added to his former expressions of gratitude, by 
knocking with his elbows against his sides. In- 
quiring how long it was since he had washed his 
skin, which was extremely dirty, after considering 
a little, he said he could not tell, but that it must 
be a long time. His wife laughed heartily on 
hearing the question. One o& the daughters. 
