32 TRAVELS IN AFPvICA. 
NoVember colledccl ill tlic mouiitaliis ; they were armed with, 
bows and arrov/s, and the captain who was with them had a 
HafTagai or fpear in his hand, and heavy ivory rings on his 
right arm. On my return to the farmer’s houfe, I found them 
to be of the tribe of Chonacquas» 
On the evening of the twenty>third, one of the fervants 
informed us, that he had feen a lion before fun-fet, about a 
tlioufand yards from the houfe. Expelling a viiit from him 
men have their haunts. This is befl; difcovered by the finoke of their fires. They are found 
in focieties from ten to fifty and a hundred, reckoning great and fmall together. IS'otwithtland- 
ing this, the farmers will venture on a dark night to fet upon them with fix or eight people, 
which they contrive to do, by previoufly ftationing themfelves at fome diftance round about the 
Craal. They then give the alarm by firing a gun or two. By this means there is fuch a con- 
fternation fpread over the whole body of thefe favages, tiiat it is only the moft bold and intelli¬ 
gent among them, who have the courage to break through the circle and fteal off. Tliefe the 
captors are glad enough to get rid of at fo eafy a rate, thofe that are ftupid, timorous, and firuck 
with amazement, and who, in confequence of this fhrpor, allow themfelves to be taken and 
carried into bondage, anfwering their purpofe much better. They are, however, at firfi:, treated 
by gentle methods ; that is, the viflors intermix the fairefi: promifes with their threats, and en¬ 
deavour, if polFible, to flioot fome of the larger kinds of game for their prifoners, fuch as buffa¬ 
loes, fea-cows, and the like. Such agreeable baits, together with a little tobacco, foon induce 
them, continually cockered and feafted as they are, to go with a tolerable degree of chearfulnefs 
t© the colonift’s place of abode. There thefe luxurious feafts of meat and fat are exchanged 
for more moderate portions, confifting for the mofi: part of butter-milk, frumenty, and hafiy- 
pudding. This diet, neverthelefs, makes the Bofliiefman fat, as I faid before, in a few weeks. 
However, he foon finds his good living embittered by the maundering and grumbling of his 
mafter and mifirefs. The words T'guzeri and T’gaunatn, which, perhaps, are beft tranflated 
by thofeof Young Sorceror and Imp, are expreffions which he muff frequently put up with, and 
foinetimes a few curfes and blows into the bargain; and this for negledf, remillhefs or idlenefs ; 
which laft failure, if it cannot be faid to be born with him, is however in a manner naturalifed 
in him. So that, both by nature and cuftom, detefting all manner of labour, and now, from 
his greater corpulency, becoming (fill more flothful, and having befides been ufed to a wandering 
life, fubjeff to'no control, he moil fenfibly feels the want of his liberty. No wonder then, that, 
he generally endeavours to regain it by making his efcape : but what is really a fubjeCf for won¬ 
der is, that, when one of thefe poor devils runs away from his fervice, or more properly bond¬ 
age, he never takes with him any thing that does not belong to him.” 
