In Connection With The Low State Of The Batoka, I Was Led To Think
On The People Of Kuruman, Who Were Equally Degraded And Equally Depraved.
There A Man Scorned To Shed A Tear.
It would have been "tlolo",
or transgression.
Weeping, such as Dr. Kane describes among the Esquimaux,
is therefore quite unknown in that country. But I have witnessed
instances like this: Baba, a mighty hunter - the interpreter who accompanied
Captain Harris, and who was ultimately killed by a rhinoceros - sat listening
to the Gospel in the church at Kuruman, and the gracious words of Christ,
made to touch his heart, evidently by the Holy Spirit, melted him into tears;
I have seen him and others sink down to the ground weeping.
When Baba was lying mangled by the furious beast which tore him off his horse,
he shed no tear, but quietly prayed as long as he was conscious.
I had no hand in his instruction: if these Batoka ever become like him,
and they may, the influence that effects it must be divine.
A very large portion of this quarter is covered with masuka-trees,
and the ground was so strewed with the pleasant fruit
that my men kept eating it constantly as we marched along.
We saw a smaller kind of the same tree, named Molondo,
the fruit of which is about the size of marbles, having a tender skin,
and slight acidity of taste mingled with its sweetness.
Another tree which is said to yield good fruit is named Sombo,
but it was not ripe at this season.
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