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yards. Observing that I smiled at their fears 
they gradually returned, and cautiously viewed 
the work within, the motion of the wheels excited 
their astonishment. 
I observed round the neck of a young woman a 
string of gilt buttons, marked Louis XVIII ; and 
on the neck of another a silver cravat-buckle, 
which probably once belonged to Cowan, or 
Donovan, or some of their party. 
Their infants cry or weep exactly as they do in 
England ; but those who are above three or four 
years of age, bawl out y"o— y"o— y^o— y"o— y"o ; 
yo— yo— yo— /o— yo. 
In the afternoon we visited a district of the 
town, about three miles to the westward of Ma- 
teebes, called by the Missionaries Hackney, and 
•containing about five hundred Bootshuanas, who 
la,tely, with their Captain or chief Malawoo, 
joined Mateebe. 
We visited three of the public enclosures where 
the men generally spend the day together at 
work, or in conversation. Each enclosure has 
what may be called a summer-house, which is 
generally in the eastern corner. To this they 
retire when the sun's heat becomes oppressive. 
It is composed of strong branches of trees, so 
