MOZINKWA AND HIS FAMILY 
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a most Intelligent and friendly man belonging to Katema. 
He had a fine large garden in cultivation, and well hedged 
round. He had made the walls of his compound, or court- 
yard, of branches of the banian, which, taking root, had 
grown to be a live hedge of that tree. Mozinkwa’s wife 
had cotton growing all round her prcmisos, and several 
plants used as relishes to the insipid porridge of the 
country. She cultivated also the common castor-oil plant, 
and a larger shrub (Jatropha curcas ) which also yields a 
purgative oil. Here, however, the oil is used for anointing 
tho heads and bodies alone. We saw in her garden like- 
wise the Indian bringalls, yams, and sweet potatoes. 
Several trees were planted in the middle of the yard, and 
in the deep shade they gave stood the huts of his fine 
family. His children, all by one mother, very black, but 
comely to view, were the finest negro family I ever saw. 
W e were much pleased with the frank friendship and 
liberality of this man and his wife. She asked me to bring 
her a cloth from the white man’s country ; but, when we 
returned, poor Mozinkwa’s wife was in her grave, and he, 
as is the custom, had abandoned trees, garden, and huts to 
ruin. They cannot live on a spot where a favorite wife 
has died, probably because unable to bear the remem- 
brance of tho happy times they have spent there, or afraie. 
to remain in a spot where death has once visited the esta- 
blishment. If ever the place is revisited, it is to pray to 
her or make some offering. This feeling renders any per- 
manent village in the country impossible. 
We learned from Mozinkwa that Soana Molopo was the 
elder brother of Katema, but that he was wanting in wis- 
dom ; and Katema, by purchasing cattle and receiving in 
a kind manner all the fugitives who came to him, had 
secured the birthright to himself, so far as influence in the 
country is concerned. Soana’ s first address to us did not 
savor much of African wisdom. 
Friday, lOfA. — On leaving Mozinkwa’s hospitable mansion, 
crossed another stream, about forty yards wide, in 
