ii6 TRAVELS IN 
" of Mimofa which conftltiites the principal food of the Ca- 
" melopardalis. We eftimated the city to be, in its circum- 
fcrence, as large as Cape Town, with all the gardens of Table 
" Valley ; but it w^as impoHible to aicertaln the number of 
" houfes, on account of the irregularity of the flreets, and low- 
" nefs of the buildings, but concluded they muft amount fome- 
*' where between two and three thoufand, of the fame kind, 
" but not fo large, as that of the chief. The whole population, 
" including men, women, and children, we confidered to be 
" from ten to fifteen thoufand fouls. Tracing our route from 
*' thelaft place in the Roggeveld, upon Mr. Barrow's map, and 
*' continuing the fame fcale, we calculated the fituation of 
" Leetakoo to be in latitude 26° 30' fouth, and longitude 27° od 
" eaft from Greenwich." 
The women here, as well as among the eaftern Kaffery, 
and indeed in all nations juft emerged from a favage ftate, 
went through all the hard labour and drudgery that was re- 
quired for the fupport of the family. They not only performed 
the tafk of breaking up the ground with a kind of hoe made 
of iron, and afterwards planted it, but they conftrudted their 
habitations, and colleded the materials that were neceflary for 
the fame, They reaped the grain, cleared it from the hufk, 
and laid it up in the granaries, which, with other earthen pots 
and wooden velTels, were the work of their hands. The men 
prepare the fkins and hides which ferve for fhoes, and make 
them up into cloaks for themfelves, their wives, and children ; 
they attend alfo the cattle, milk the cows, and hunt the ante- 
lopes 
