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boys were building houses of brick and making fences.
Villages of Natives were to be seen often and looked like
this.

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Near by
they look
like the
next one.
They always
built round
huts before
the white man came
and generally
do the same now. They keep herds of cattle with long horns,

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sheep, also goats
and all
look exceedingly
well fed. They
usually eat
mush made
of corn meal
called mealie
meal and sour
milk. They add
meat when they
can get it. Monkey nuts or peanuts and many plants
are used also. The Bantus which comprise all the
tribes S. of the Zambese, exclusive of the Bushman
and Hottentots, had domesticated dogs,
cattle, sheep (with hair instead of wool) and goats
when found by the white man.

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