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wishes to let everybody know that she Is 
married, she ties a white string around hef 
forehead. If a man wishes to farm a piece 
of land which is yet in timber, he puts on 
its boundaries sticks with leaves tied to their 
tops. If a headman wishes to announce 
that persons will be punished for throwing 
water where he does not wish it in his town, 
he puts up there a stake with a bunch of 
switches tied to its top. 
Whilst I was at Good Hope station, Mr, 
Brooks received from a headman, whom he 
had once visited, a present of a goat, apiece 
of soap, and six country cloths. The goat, 
soap, and each one of the cloths were em- 
blematical of some specific thing, which the 
messenger who brought them explained to 
Mr. B* at the time. A great variety of 
things are thus represented, and this assists 
them not a little to make plain what their 
defective language alone would fail to do. 
