On inquiring, we were told that when a child or relative dies one is made, and when any pleasant food is cooked or beer brewed, a little is placed in the tiny hut for the departed soul, which is believed to enjoy it.
The Lokuzhwa is here some fifty yards wide, and running.

Numerous large pitholes in the fine-grained schist in its bed show that much water has flowed in it.
_8th December, 1866._--A kind of bean called "chitetta" is eaten here, it is an old acquaintance in the Bechuana country, where it is called "mositsane," and is a mere plant; here it becomes a tree, from fifteen to twenty feet high.

The root is used for tanning; the bean is pounded, and then put into a sieve of bark cloth to extract, by repeated washings, the excessively astringent matter it contains.
Where the people have plenty of water, as here, it is used copiously in various processes, among Bechuanas it is scarce, and its many uses unknown: the pod becomes from fifteen to eighteen inches long, and an inch in diameter.
_9th December, 1866._--A poor child, whose mother had died, was unprovided for; no one not a relative will nurse another's child.

It called out piteously for its mother by name, and the women (like the servants in the case of the poet Cowper when a child), said, "She is coming." I gave it a piece of bread, but it was too far gone, and is dead to-day.
An alarm of Mazitu sent all the villagers up the sides of Mparawe this morning.

The affair was a chase of a hyaena, but everything is Mazitu! The Babisa came here, but were surrounded and nearly all cut off.