The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-05-02

nicknamed by the blacks "Amalonga"-
Like the sun" Me they christened
/ Mloomoosi' Zone who speaks with
smiles. was much taken with yYly
pretty title, and tried hard to live up
to It.
The natives have great liking 70.
choala' (spirits), and their next best
favorite tiDple is ''moatf' (medicineJ. If
ever l wanted specially to reward one of
our boys, l used to give him either a big
dose of castor oil or a bottle of Epson
salts He would toss it off. and then,
squatting down like a child playing
'honey-pots.' would point with his Gore
hnger in hte air, and say the Zulu equiya-
lent Of:
! h n,I art art. my master cecil. .-..5 =,
Who creeps beneath thy f6ot; q 49,.
1hou art my MASTER - sJfCt'2
These blacks, coming straight feon, heir
kraals and undeterierated by contact with
common whites in the big towns make
generally excellent servants, being intelii-
gent thorough and devoted = But, as is
only natural, during the process of train
ing, they sometimes make the most ride
uIous mistakes. l recall with smiles
small lntombi' (girD of whom l had the
framing as indoor maid, and how after
carefully ipstructing her in her Various
duties L had to follow closely in her
wake, picking up the duties after she had
done them. The only idea She seemed able
TO permanently grasp was, that the correct
NUMBER OF glasses to set to each person
at table was three; she would strew little
groups OF glasses at intervals all over
me taplecloths, interspersed with a pretty
pattern of spoons knives and forks She
was of course quite ignorant and nm
framed what Is called a raw" girl A
story comes to my mind of a much more
difficult subject, "boY ~ not raw bat
decidedly UNDERGONE, who had the little
knowledge which is a dangerous thing. A,
friend of mine was5'fis happy possessor
ecdote. .5,.
One day Kiewibooi interrupted his mis-
tIess In some letter writing to say that
the meat had come.
very we'll" she said, I'll come d.
rectly Put something over the meat to
Iarder."
Later on the meat was taken out. cook
ed and in due course served My friends
husband took mouthful, choked and
hastily left the table.
Great Scott!' he roared on his return
What have you done to that meat?"
She could not explain, so the boy" was
called and Intercepted, and itscame out
that what he had put over the meat .sto
keep the HES away" had been not a meat
cover. but Keating's insect powder!
1hese boys stay in your service
twelve months or two years, or even
longer according to agreement, and then
go to their kraals for long rest. There
they lead lazy life, having as many
wives as they can afford to pay for
1hey BUY their wives with cattle, and
don think much of the English custom
OF giving away bride for nothing!
When l first arrived at Pretoria the
Zulu boy" with whom came most in
contact was very glum, owing to his mar
rage having to be postponed because all
pest!
Besides the zulus, Swazis. Batsutos
Tembus and other members of the great
Bantu family one finds in the TransvaaI
small number of Bushmen, a dimtnu-
tive aboriginal race, supposed to be allied
in origin to the Hottentots. Not MANY Of
these survive because, being as they
have been from the first outeasts Of
South Africa, living in holes and corners
OF the land, Hottentets, Kaflrs and whites
have done their best to exterminate them.
My own experience of the Bushmen was
very limited, and has only left me with
two tmpressions-f1rst, that their skulls
must be very tough, and, second, that
their consciences must be very elastic
1He former was brought home to me by
the sight Of Bushman's skull in Pretoria
museum. 1t had two great round indenta-
tons, one at the top, one at the back,
both caused by bullets which had appar-
emily not Inconvenience the owner of the
skull in the slightest. as was proySS bu
his still living on until third Shot car
ried him Off
The elasticity Of t,.-.eir consciences was
brought homs ~ the following incident:
y lsnS IN Pretoria kept a little Bush
MI girl as nursemaid. One day she Sc
riously annoyed the child by refusing to
give her a holiday. The small native did
not say much, but looked round for some
poison with which to administer the hap
Ply dispatch of her mistress, found some
Rough on Rats, and one day popped it
in the tea The mistress happened not
to take any, but her little child did and
died, and the incident rather prejudiced
me against Bushmen. Perhaps it is little
to be wondered at that the members of
such race should be abruptly shown the
door.