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CHAP. TUI. SETTLEMENT OE AFRICAN CHRISTIANS. 203 Next morning, while sitting at our breakfast, of which excellent fruit formed a considerable part, I looked out and saw within a circular fence, at a short distance from the house, eight or ten horses driven round upon a quantity of straw spread over a smooth hard clay floor. This I was informed was their threshing floor, and thus the corn was trodden out, — a process which I afterwards witnessed in many other parts of the colony. During the day we accompanied the missionary and a number of the people to their grazing ground, corn lands, gardens, fountains, and different habitations. At the latter we found the goodwife had usually a cup of coffee and cakes, or a dish of grapes or some other refreshment, waiting our arrival. The cottages, though designated by their owners as only temporary dwellings, were many of them neat and comfortable. All contained a separate and partitioned bed room ; and I was sometimes amused at the accumulation of treasures which the outer room exhibited. Each had a table and chairs, or some ruder kind of seat, frequently the driving box of a waggon. In one cottage, where we took some re freshment, the end of the room was occupied by two large bins about four feet deep, built up in brick-work from the floor, and filled with excellent wheat, in quantity, I was told, about forty bushels. At one corner of the same room hung the fowling-piece of the master, with powder-horns, and shooting apparatus ; at another corner the adze, the axe, the cross-cut saw; and in a third the spade and the hoe ; while chisels, augers, and small tools were stuck into different parts of the thatch; and on a pole above hung long strips of the dried flesh of the antelope, and other beasts. The shelves, in different parts, were occupied with articles of crockery-ware, besides a coffee-pot, and a brass or tin tea-kettle. Beyond these, the skins of kids, or other small animals converted into bags, with the hair inside, but the legs projecting,—some apparently filled with nails or other valuables, — hung from