We were much in want of animal food, which seems to be a greater necessary of life there than vegetarians would imagine.

Being alone, we could not divide the butcher-meat of a slaughtered animal with a prospect of getting a return with regularity.

Sechele had, by right of chieftainship, the breast of every animal slaughtered either at home or abroad, and he most obligingly sent us a liberal share during the whole period of our sojourn.

But these supplies were necessarily so irregular that we were sometimes fain to accept a dish of locusts.

These are quite a blessing in the country, so much so that the RAIN-DOCTORS sometimes promised to bring them by their incantations.