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the dairy, form a part of the employment of the men. In the 
morning a third fignal fent them out to graze. The KafFers 
and their cattle feemed perfe<3:ly to underftand each other. 
Though at this place there could not be fewer than three 
hundred men and women, exclufive of a numerous troop of 
young boys and girls who were obliged to keep at a diftance ; 
yet not a hut of any kind was to be feen. Thefe were all con- 
cealed in the midft of the fhrubbery : they confifted only of 
a few living twigs, whofe tops were bent and interwoven into 
each other, forming a frame, of the lhape of a parabola, about 
five feet high and eight in diameter. Thefe frames were rudely 
covered over with branches of trees and long grafs, and were 
evidently intended only as temporary abodes. 
A chief of the name of T'ooley paid us a vifit, drank a few 
glalfes of wine which he feemed very much to relifh, and 
received a fmall prefent of beads and tobacco ; but the objed: 
that feemed moft to engage his attention was the wifh to pro- 
cure for himfelf a pair of breeches. Among our party were a 
few tolerably ftout and tall men, yet none of their breeches 
would fuffer Tooley's tliighs to enter into them. He was a 
ftrong mufcular man, of fix feet in height, and well made. He 
was good-humored and cheerful, but did not appear to be pof- 
felTed of much intelle£t. He declined entering into any con- 
verfation that led to the purport of our journey, and faid that 
his brother Malloo^ who was one of the firft of the Kaffer 
chiefs, would talk to us on that fubje£t. An exprefs was 
therefore fent for Malloo, who was at a little diftance on the 
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