SOUTHERN AFRICA. 
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or sopie, or both, and smokes his pipe ; then k)ui]ges about 
the house in his slaap mutz and nagt cabbaay, his night cap 
and gown, or parades the stoop^ or raised platform before the 
door, in the same dress, with a long pipe stuck in his mouth. 
About nine o'clock he takes a solid breakfast, and a few 
glasses of wine, continues to lounge about the house till din- 
ner-hour, which is punctually at twelve, or, if the weather be 
tempting, or any news stirring, he walks out to meet his com- 
rades. Immediately after dinner he goes to bed, rises again 
at five or six, makes or receives visits, when he smokes tobacco 
and drinks wine till nine o'clock, which is the signal for every 
one to repair to his own house. Here a hot supper, consist- 
ing of eight, ten, or even twenty solid dishes of fish and but- 
cher's meat, dressed in a variety of shapes, is ready to receive 
him, smoking on the table. 'J'his is the favourite meal, to 
which he considers all that he has eaten and drunk and 
smoked in the course of the day, as whets only to the appe- 
tite, and preparatives to the grand feast. Thus day after day, 
** The lazy glutton safe at home will keep, 
" Indulge his sloth, and fatten with his sleep." 
The good woman of the house rises about the same early 
hour with her husband ; takes her coffee alone ; scolds the 
slaves; sets them their daily task; dresses for a vendutie. or 
public sale, of which there are never fewer than three or four 
in the town, or its vicinity, every day of the week; comes 
home to dinner at twelve, and then goes to bed ; rises again 
with her husband, receives or pays visits with him ; but here 
they separate ; the men drink and smoke in one room; the 
