the beautifully spotted Cape tiger and leopard, the brindled wolf, red lynx, and of many other animals; then there are the buffalo's horns of tremendous power, from which powder-horns are formed; those of the various antelopes, the eggs and feathers of the ostrich, and rough carpets made of the spring-buck's skins.

The waggons too of the men who traffic with the border tribes are also frequently worth examining, for they bring the tusks of the elephant and the hippopotamus, the rich fur mantle sof the Bechuanas and Griquas, and their strange ornaments and arms, necklaces from which hang the teeth of the wolf and the claws of the tiger, or still more valuable, mysterious pieces of wood or clay possessing a charmed power; copper bracelets, sometimes ingeniously worked, large ivory armlets, and female caps, presenting a mass of beads fashioned in various patterns on the blue buck's skin.

Then there are the assegais of the Kaffer, slight javelins of about five feet eight inches

in length with iron barbs; these they use in war and in hunting. The iron parts of the assegais differ in form: some have a simple spear-head fastened to the thin wooden shaft, while others have below the barb a slight square iron jagged stem with notches at its angles, two of the rows inclining downwards, while the other two have a contrary direction: this formation has the effect of lacerating the wound dreadfully when the weapon enters the body, or is extracted from it. There is much cruel ingenuity in this plan, and it is impossible not to admire the skill that can fabricate such a weapon with such imperfect means; a block of rock is their anvil, a piece of the same rock forms the hammer, and old gun-barrels or hoops their material.

War hatchets are sometimes to be seen, the weapon of distant hordes, the handles of which are formed from the straight horn of

the rhinosceros.

The arms of the pigmy but dreaded Bushmen too come into the market. Nothing can be

in effect, than these: the bow is about two feet six inches, the arrow eighteen inches, in length ; and this is the mode of making it. Into a slight reed a small sharpened bone (that of the ostrich, I believe,) is thrust, but not fastened; this bone is poisoned; and when the weapon is withdrawn from the wound, remains behind, being prevented from returning with the reed, by a small hook placed at one of its sides; others have a thin triangular sharp piece of iron at the extremity, black with a gluey substance, said to be a strong mineral poison; some, however, describe it as extracted from serpents, and others from plants. Little is, I believe, known on the subject, except that it carries immediate death.

The missionary waggon from Kafferland, followed by its dark train of natives, who have left their own land to look upon that which the white men have taken from them; tall stately forms that gaze upon every thing with wonder in their wandering eyes, and who are

brought, that an impression may be made upon their simple minds of the power of the stranger, form no uninteresting object. Shortly after my arrival, two chiefs of high rank, Duchany and his brother, reached Graham's Town with a missionary; and in coming within sight of the town, Duchany's courage failed, and he told his conductor that it was known he had some years before led an attack against it; that his name had been proclaimed by the English, and a reward offered for his apprehension; and there was some difficulty in calming his fears and making him believe that all was now forgotten. He looked down upon its straggling streets from the hill that commands it, for some time, in silence; and then observed, "that the kraal was now too large to be attempted."

The Chiefs, on entering the town, had rough European clothing given to them, and went about with an interpreter begging presents. Beggary is divested of its meanness when the petitioner can by no exertion of his own obtain that which he asks for; and therefore the im

portunity of the Kaffer amuses rather than disgusts, though it must be allowed that to satisfy him is impossible.

I was much entertained by observing a group of them in a shop which contained, among other things, hatchets, tinder-boxes, and tin and iron pots, which a friend of mine was liberally supplying them with. During a pause in their in their requests, the shopman said to the purchaser, "Now, Sir, notwithstanding all they have received, were you to ask for the most trifling ornament which they wear, you would not get it-a Kaffer never gives ;" and to prove his assertion, he said to Duchany, "The Landdrost has given you all these things, will you not give him that ear-bead in return ?" but the Chief did not appear to hear him: the question was repeated, and he then calmly replied, "If the Landdrost were to ask me for it himself, I should believe he wanted it; but I have left my own country not to give, but to receive presents.'

One of their followers, a tall young man,