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and shot a splendid golden goose, as it was feeding 
on the mealies within one hundred yards of the 
kraal. As it is always very cold before the sun 
rises I turned in again, but was roused by the cries 
of a child evidently in pain, and was thereupon 
witness to a new fashion of administering a warm 
bath. A child of about ten years old was being held 
down to the ground, while the doctor, with the sole 
of his foot previously heated on an earthenware pot 
just off the fire and turned upside down, was pressing 
the body of the child all over and rubbing it up and 
down the back, causing it, no doubt, very great 
pain. The Kaffirs have no feeling in the soles of 
their feet, the skin being like the hoof of a cow, and 
fully half an inch thick. 
While staying at the kraal, I killed the finest 
specimen of the eagle tribe I ever saw, and regretted 
much that I had no arsenical soap to preserve the 
skin. I saw a great commotion among a troop of 
guinea fowls across the river, and presently this fellow 
rose, so gorged that he could only just rise, feathered 
to the toes with beautiful black and white plumage, 
and talons fearful to look upon. 
The next day I left my goods and chattels in 
charge of the Nkozi Kazi (the chiefs principal wife) 
at the Black Umveloose, and followed the wagon- 
track to the Inyelas, about fifteen miles a head, and 
once again took up my quarters in a kraal. 
22nd .— By dint of great persuasion and a promise 
of thirty strings of Umgazi beads, I got a Zulu to 
