May.] contrivance FOR SMOKING. 
cially if the Hottentots had survived to shoot 
game on the way home. 
Tw^o of the Matchappees, not having tobacco- 
pipes, adopted a curious contrivance for smoking. 
They dug a hole in the ground the shape of a 
basin, in which they formed, with their fingers, 
a round passage, down one side and up the other, 
in the shape of an inverted bow, this they arched 
over with clay, and filled up the whole with 
earth, leaving open the two ends of the passage ; 
then placing their tobacco, [or rather wild hemp] 
with a lighted cinder at one end, and putting 
their mouths close to the other, they sucked out 
the smoke. Necessity is the mother of invention 
in all lands. 
14th. The rain having subsided, and the morn- 
ing pleasant, we went forward at nine a. m. 
Therm, at noon 56. A flock of several hundred 
quachas,* travelling towards the south, passed on 
our left, with their leader about a hundred yards 
a-head of them, whom they implicitly followed. 
Those who hunt the quacha generally endeavor 
first to kill their leader, which puts all the rest 
into such confusion that they know not what 
course to pursue. A Marootzee from Kurree- 
* Or wild asses, with striped skins like the zebra. 
