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quacha ; and all these they contrive to take by exertion or 
by stratagem. In their choice of animal food they are not 
remarkably nice. They will eat the wolf, the hyaena, and 
the myrmecophaga or ant-eater ; the leopard, the tyger-cat, 
and the camelopardalis ; and the country abounds with os- 
triches, bustards, grous, Guinea fowls, and partridges. But 
all these, plentiftd as they are, would furnish but a precarious 
supply for so considerable a population ; and necessity has 
therefore, in all probability, compelled them to call in aid 
the never-failing source of plenty and provision which agri- 
culture affords. The grain chiefly cultivated, as appeared by 
the samples brought back by the commissioners, consisted of 
the holcus sorghum, a smaller species of the same genus 
which from the reddish coloured seed appeared to be the 
Saccharatus, a Dolichas not unlike the cacljan, and a small 
spotted Phaseolus or kidney bea,n. These different kinds of 
grain and pulse appear to be sown promiscuously and, when 
reaped, to be thrown indiscriminately into their earthen 
granaries ; from whence they are taken and used without 
selection, sometimes bj^ broiling,, but more generally boiling 
in milk. It will readily be supposed that the art of agricul- 
ture among this people is yet in its lowest stage. In fact, 
the only lab<)ur bestowed on, the .ground is performed by the 
women, and with a rude instaiumeiiifc / tsomething like the 
hoe. It is a flat piece of iron fixed! into the knob of the 
KafFer keerie. When its horizontal edge is so fitted that it 
stands at right angles with the handle, it serves as a hoe ; 
when turned round so as to be parallel with the handle, it is 
then a hatchet. One of these instruments appears lying on» 
the ground, in the print of the two annexed figures. 
