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vleys of water, with lots of wild fowl and large black 
geese. We saw also a few sea-cows, three of which 
I struck at long distances. They were very shy, 
having been shot at a good deal. 
The Kaffirs brought me in the evening some vile 
water porridge, made of inyouti, a small seed grown 
by the Kaffirs, which was quite uneatable. I bought 
some twenty fresh eggs, and made a great discovery 
in cooking. I fried this same inyouti porridge in 
fat, broke some eight eggs over it, and so concocted 
as fine a mess as anyone could wish for; indeed, 
it was so good, that I reserved the remains for the 
morning. 
7 th. — Off early again after the sea-cows. On 
arriving, I saw only one up, which I had killed the 
afternoon before, and which a Kaffir had found out, 
and was going in for, but he made off on seeing me. 
I soon came on a lot asleep, and, getting pretty near, 
I shot the biggest of them. I soon had some eighty 
or a hundred Kaffirs around me, and they hauled 
up the cow. Nothing could be more courteous than 
their behaviour while I took what I wanted ; but as 
soon as I delivered over the carcase to them, there 
ensued an indescribable scene of confusion. The 
Kaffirs rushed at the beast with assegais, knives, 
picks, and axes; hallooing, bellowing, shoving, and 
fighting, in a manner that no one would believe 
who had not seen them. Occasionally the captain 
ran in, and laid about him with a rhinoceros sjambok 
in every direction. The strongest of the savages got 
