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SPORT AND WAR. 
CHAP. XIX. 
day to day, first into a moving mass of black minutice , 
and from that increasing in size and becoming the 
colour of the brightest red. 
At this stage they are called the 4 Eooi baatyes,’ or 
red soldiers. It is some time before the wings are 
developed, when they again change colour to locust- 
brown, and take to flight; and it is curious that when 
they do this their course is generally inland, in contra¬ 
distinction to their progenitors which came from the 
interior. The unfledged locusts are also called the 
4 foot-ganghers,’ or foot-soldiers; and nothing can impede 
their advance, which they generally make on the prin- 
of the wedge, with the thin end first. Eivers of water 
will not check their forward movement, for they plunge 
headlong into the water, until the dead make a bridge 
for the living. 
About the year 1830 some of the dispersed native 
tribes from the interior of Africa migrated into the 
Cape Colony to seek employment among the farmers. 
The tribes were called Mautatees, and Bucuanas, and my 
father engaged one family, consisting of a man named 
Job, and his two wives, Mashalee and Anna, with seven 
or eight children. Soon after their arrival a flight of 
locusts came from the interior, and night after night 
whilst the locusts were settled on the earth the whole 
of this family, with great sandals of ox-hide tied on 
their feet (very like Canadian snow-shoes), would walk 
